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Antonyms for flight
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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. flight

    A career was originally the ground for a race, or, especially, for a knight's charge in tournament or battle; whence career was early applied to the charge itself.

    If you will use the lance, take ground for your career.... The four horsemen met in full career.

    Scott Quentin Durward ch. 14, p. 194. [D. F. & CO.]

    In its figurative use career signifies some continuous and conspicuous work, usually a life-work, and most frequently one of honorable achievement. Compare BUSINESS.

    Synonyms:
    career, charge, course, line of achievement, passage, public life, race, rush

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 2 votes

  1. flight

    Antonyms:
    recurrence, return, reappearance, perching, alighting, repose

    Synonyms:
    volitation, departure, escape, evasion, disappearance, flying, stampede, soaring, begin, fleeing, exodus

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 1 vote

  1. flightnoun

    a formation of aircraft in flight

    Synonyms:
    flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

  2. flight, flyingnoun

    an instance of traveling by air

    "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

    Synonyms:
    flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

  3. flight, flight of stairs, flight of stepsnoun

    a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

    Synonyms:
    flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

  4. escape, flightnoun

    the act of escaping physically

    "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt"

    Synonyms:
    relief valve, leakage, trajectory, evasion, dodging, escape, escape cock, flight of stairs, leak, safety valve, escape valve, outflow, flying, flight of steps, escapism

  5. flightnoun

    an air force unit smaller than a squadron

    Synonyms:
    flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

  6. flightnoun

    passing above and beyond ordinary bounds

    "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"

    Synonyms:
    flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

  7. trajectory, flightnoun

    the path followed by an object moving through space

    Synonyms:
    flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

  8. flightnoun

    a flock of flying birds

    Synonyms:
    flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

  9. flightverb

    a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports

    "I took the noon flight to Chicago"

    Synonyms:
    flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

  10. flightverb

    shoot a bird in flight

    Synonyms:
    fledge

  11. flightverb

    fly in a flock

    "flighting wild geese"

    Synonyms:
    fledge

  12. fledge, flightverb

    decorate with feathers

    "fledge an arrow"

    Synonyms:
    feather, fledge

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.5 / 2 votes

  1. flightnoun

    Synonyms:
    flying, exodus, hegira, fleeing, absconding

How to use flight in a sentence?

  1. Joost Heymeijer:

    We have absolute traceability, we know everything on every dish on every flight.

  2. Chirantan Barua:

    The politics in the UK is getting messier at the same time when bank CEOs are being pressurized by investors to improve returns. In this environment...we see HSBC and Standard Chartered taking flight.

  3. Dan Kildee:

    Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, members of Michigan's congressional delegation were unable to travel on Air Force One with the President to Dearborn. As a result, Members had to take a commercial flight, hours after the presidential visit ended, that required them to vote by proxy.

  4. Thomas Karako:

    This is a game of minutes, but the initial detection of a launch would be really in terms of seconds, keep in mind the entire flight time from North Korea to the United States is well under any hour [and] the authority is given in advance. It's predesignated.

  5. Jane Lynch:

    You're the ones who watched a rat dragging a pizza down a flight of stairs 9 million times, you're the ones who made the man bun an OK thing for a dude to wear.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#357return
#2061flight
#18686recurrence
#38211repose
#89277reappearance
#108163perching
#139364alighting

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