Word Meanings - FLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLOW)

• Abound
• Stream
• swell
• flow
• increase
• overflow
• superabound
• luxuriate
• teem
• swarm
• flourish
• prevail
• be plentiful
• wanton
• revel
• multiply
• Emanate
• Originate
• spring
• rise
• proceed
• issue
• Flux
• Flow
• motion
• progression
• change
• substitution
• transmutation
• Lapse
• Gliding
• falling
• onflow
• flux
• progress
• escheatment
• devolution
• reversion
• elapsing
• Melt
• Dissolve
• liquify
• colliquate
• run
• fuse

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLOW)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Settle
• alight
• land
• drop
• arrive
• issue
• eventuate
• end
• terminate
• debouch
• disembogue

Related words: (words related to FLOW)

• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• TRANSMUTATIONIST
  One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
• PROCEREBRUM
  The prosencephalon.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• FALLER
  A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• ELAPS
  A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.