aflutter
aflutter · more aflutter · most aflutter
aufgeregt
FlutteringFluttering.
UK/əˈflʌt.ə/US/əˈflʌt.ɚ/
Meaning
3 sensesFluttering.
1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43, They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old
Filled or covered (with something that flutters).
In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.
aufgeregt
excited in anticipation
Translations
5 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
in a state of excited anticipation:
Forms
more aflutter, most aflutter| Comparative | more aflutter Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most aflutter Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- excited in anticipation:nervous
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form