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flight - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | flight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flying; journey |
| Synonyms: | aeronautics, arrival, aviation, departure, hop, jump, navigation, shuttle, soaring, transport, trip, voyage, aerial navigation, avigation, gliding, mounting, take-off, volitation, winging |
| Main Entry: | flight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fleeing; departure |
| Synonyms: | beat*, break*, escape, exit, exodus, getaway, out*, powder*, retreat, slip*, spring*, breakout, escapement, escaping, exfiltration, fugue, getaway car, lam, retreating, running away |
| Antonyms: | standing, staying, waiting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flying an aircraft; study of flying aircraft |
| Synonyms: | aeronautics, flight, navigation, aerodynamics, piloting |
| Main Entry: | avoidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eluding; preventing |
| Synonyms: | delay, departure, dodge, escape, evasion, flight, forbearance, parry, passive resistance, prevention, recession, recoil, restraint, retreat, run-around, self-restraint, absention, circumvention, dodging, elusion, escapism, eschewal, nonparticipation, shirking, shunning, steering clear of |
| Antonyms: | meeting |
| Main Entry: | bevy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swarm |
| Synonyms: | assembly, band, bunch, cluster, collection, company, covey, crew, crowd, flight, flock, gathering, group, pack, party, troupe |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, avoidance, betrayal, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, divorce, escape, evasion, flight, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retreat, secession, treachery, withdrawal, absconding, apostasy, backsliding, castoff, defecting, departing, disavowal, disavowing, elusion, falling away, falseness, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, relinquishment, retirement, running out on, tergiversation, truancy |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | disappearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vanishing |
| Synonyms: | departure, desertion, disintegration, dissipation, dissolution, eclipse, escape, evanescence, evaporation, exit, exodus, fading, flight, loss, melting, passing, recession, removal, wane, withdrawal, ceasing to exist, decline and fall, dematerialization, disappearing act, dispersal, ebbing, going, receding, retirement, wearing away |
| Antonyms: | appearance, arrival, coming, entrance |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking away; getaway |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, beat, bolt, break, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, evasion, evasiveness, flight, freedom, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, slip, spring, withdrawal, AWOL, abdication, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, runaround, shunning, sidestepping |
| Antonyms: | capture, maintenance, stay |
| Main Entry: | exodus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
| Synonyms: | departure, egress, emigration, evacuation, exit, flight, journey, migration, retreat, withdrawal, egression, exiting, going out, offgoing, retirement |
| Antonyms: | arrival, entrance |
| Main Entry: | fantasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination, dream |
| Synonyms: | Atlantis, Utopia, air castle, apparition, appearance, bubble*, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, delusion, envisioning, externalizing, fabrication, fairyland, fancy, fancying, fantasia, figment*, flight, flight of imagination, fool's paradise, hallucination, head trip, illusion, imaginativeness, imagining, invention, mind trip, mirage, nightmare, objectifying, originality, rainbow*, reverie, trip, vagary, vision |
| Notes: | fantasy is imagination unrestricted by reality; phantasm is a ghostly appearing figure or something existing in perception only |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congregation |
| Synonyms: | army, assembly, bevy, brood, cloud, collection, colony, company, convoy, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, gathering, group, herd, host, legion, litter, mass, multitude, pack, progeny, rout, throng, gaggle, scores, skein |
| Main Entry: | getaway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | escape |
| Synonyms: | break, flight, slip, breakout, decampment, lam |
| Main Entry: | herd |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, bevy, brood, clan, collection, covey, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, flock, gathering, hoi polloi*, horde, lot, mass, mob, multitude, nest, pack, people, populace, press, rabble, school, swarm, throng, gaggle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming defeat |
| Synonyms: | beating, comedown, confusion, debacle, disaster, embarrassment, flight, hiding, overthrow, retreat, romp, ruin, shambles, trashing, upset, washout*, whipping, clobbering, drubbing, shutout, thrashing, vanquishment, walkover, waxing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stampede |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rush of animals |
| Synonyms: | charge, chase, crash, dash, flight, fling, hurry, panic, rout, run, scattering, shoot, smash, tear |
| Main Entry: | trajectory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course |
| Synonyms: | curve, direction, flight, flow, line, movement, orbit, path, range, route, track, trail |
| Main Entry: | aeronautics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | science of flight |
| Synonyms: | aviation, flight, flying, air transportation |
| Main Entry: | flight of stairs |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a set of steps |
| Synonyms: | flight, stairs, escalier, flight of steps, pair of stairs, staircase, stairway, stairwell, steps |
| Main Entry: | army |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military force, usually for land |
| Synonyms: | artillery, battalion, battery, brigade, cavalry, column, command, company, corps, detail, division, flight, formation, infantry, legion, outfit, platoon, regiment, squad, wing, armed force, patrol unit, soldiers, soldiery, troops |
| Main Entry: | bolt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run quickly away |
| Synonyms: | abscond, bail out*, bound, cop out*, cut loose*, cut out*, dart, dash, ditch*, drop out*, dump*, escape, flee, flight, fly, hotfoot*, hurtle, jump, leap, leave in the lurch, make off*, opt out, rush, scamper, scoot, skedaddle*, skip, split*, spring, sprint, start, startle, take off*, walk out on, hightail, kiss goodbye, leave flat, leave high and dry, leave holding the bag, make a break for it, make tracks, run like scared rabbit, run out on, step on it, take flight |
| Antonyms: | stay, wait |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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