Thesaurus / butterflies
FEEDBACKsynonyms for butterflies
synonyms for butterflies
- afraid
- apprehensive
- careful
- concerned
- distressed
- fearful
- fidgety
- jittery
- nervous
- restless
- scared
- uneasy
- uptight
- aghast
- antsy
- basket case
- bugged
- choked
- clutched
- disquieted
- disturbed
- dreading
- fretful
- hacked
- hyper
- in a state
- in a tizzy
- in suspense
- jumpy
- nervy
- overwrought
- shaking
- shaky
- shivery
- shook-up
- shot to pieces
- solicitous
- spooked
- strung-out
- sweating bullets
- taut
- troubled
- unglued
- unquiet
- watchful
- wired
- worried sick
- wreck
- afraid
- concerned
- doubtful
- jittery
- jumpy
- suspicious
- uncertain
- uneasy
- uptight
- alarmed
- biting nails
- disquieted
- feel in bones
- foreboding
- frozen
- get vibes
- have a hunch
- have cold feet
- have funny feeling
- have stage fright
- hung up
- in a cold sweat
- in a dither
- in a sweat
- lily-livered
- mistrustful
- running scared
- shaky
- stiff
- troubled
- weak
- worried
- worried sick
- afraid
- anxious
- fearful
- panicky
- spooked
- startled
- unnerved
- abashed
- alarmed
- cowed
- dismayed
- frozen
- numb
- petrified
- terrified
- terrorized
- yellow
- aghast
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- have cold feet
- having kittens
- hung up
- in a cold sweat
- in a panic
- in a sweat
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- pushing the panic button
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared stiff
- shaky
- shivery
- sissy
- terror-stricken
- uptight
- angst
- apprehension
- concern
- disquiet
- doubt
- dread
- jitters
- misery
- misgiving
- mistrust
- nervousness
- panic
- restlessness
- suffering
- suspense
- trouble
- uncertainty
- unease
- uneasiness
- botheration
- care
- creeps
- disquietude
- distress
- downer
- drag
- fidgets
- flap
- foreboding
- fretfulness
- fuss
- heebie-jeebies
- jumps
- needles
- shakes
- shivers
- solicitude
- sweat
- watchfulness
- willies
- worriment
- all-overs
- ants in pants
- cold sweat
- goose bumps
- nail-biting
- pins and needles
- anger
- stage fright
- tension
- turbulence
- uneasiness
- worry
- agitation
- animation
- creeps
- delirium
- discomfiture
- disquiet
- disquietude
- dithers
- excitability
- feverishness
- fidget
- fidgets
- flap
- fluster
- fuss
- impatience
- jump
- jumps
- moodiness
- neurasthenia
- neuroticism
- perturbation
- quivers
- sensitivity
- shakes
- shiver
- stimulation
- stress
- timidity
- tizzy
- to-do
- touchiness
- tremble
- trembles
- willies
- all-overs
- cold sweat
- tremulousness
- agitation
- anger
- disquiet
- impatience
- jitters
- sensitivity
- stage fright
- stress
- tension
- turbulence
- uneasiness
- worry
- animation
- creeps
- delirium
- discomfiture
- disquietude
- dithers
- excitability
- feverishness
- fidgets
- flap
- fluster
- fuss
- jumps
- moodiness
- neurasthenia
- neuroticism
- perturbation
- quivers
- shakes
- stimulation
- timidity
- tizzy
- to-do
- touchiness
- trembles
- willies
- all-overs
- cold sweat
- tremulousness
- aphonia
- aphonia clericorum
- aphonia paralytica
- aphonia paranoica
- bashfulness
- buck fever
- flop sweat
- freeze
- hysterical aphonia
- loss of speech
- mike fright
- mutism
- spastic aphonia
- alarm
- apprehension
- consternation
- dismay
- disquiet
- dread
- excitement
- fright
- horror
- jitters
- nervousness
- panic
- terror
- uneasiness
- agitation
- creeps
- disturbance
- emotion
- fear
- palpitation
- perturbation
- shock
- worriment
- blue funk
- cold feet
- cold sweat
- goose bumps
- trepidity
- angst
- apprehension
- disquiet
- doubt
- dread
- foreboding
- jitters
- misgiving
- mistrust
- nervousness
- panic
- restlessness
- uncertainty
- uneasiness
- worry
- anxiousness
- botheration
- care
- concern
- creeps
- disquietude
- distress
- downer
- drag
- fidgets
- flap
- fretfulness
- fuss
- heebie-jeebies
- jumps
- misery
- needles
- shakes
- shivers
- solicitude
- suffering
- suspense
- sweat
- trouble
- watchfulness
- willies
- worriment
- all-overs
- ants in pants
- cold sweat
- goose bumps
- nail-biting
- pins and needles
antonyms for butterflies
MOST RELEVANT
- calm
- certain
- clear
- collected
- composed
- confident
- cool
- definite
- easygoing
- happy
- laid-back
- sure
- unquestionable
- at ease
- quiet
- unafraid
- undoubting
- unfearful
- unsuspicious
- unworried
- advantage
- belief
- blessing
- calm
- calmness
- certainty
- collectedness
- confidence
- contentment
- ease
- faith
- happiness
- joy
- peace
- security
- sureness
- trust
- peacefulness
- assurance
- composure
- nonchalance
- tranquility
- assurance
- beauty
- calm
- calmness
- collectedness
- composure
- confidence
- ease
- encouragement
- happiness
- peace
- security
- contentment
- belief
- calm
- calmness
- certainty
- collectedness
- confidence
- ease
- faith
- security
- sureness
- trust
- advantage
- benefit
- blessing
- happiness
- health
- joy
- peace
- peacefulness
- pleasure
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use butterflies in a sentence
The sea itself was covered with innumerable dead butterflies and moths, which had been carried out to sea by the storm.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERShe is all fragrant with blossoms, and in a moment the butterflies come fluttering round her.
CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYANATOLE FRANCESummer insects danced on the air, and a flock of white butterflies fanned the mobile tips of the crimson fireweed.
SUMMEREDITH WHARTONThe congregation reminds me of a clover field, with the butterflies hovering over its gaily-colored, bobbing heads.
ALONEMARION HARLANDOthers returning from earlier rounds of gaiety were pressing through, like fluttering, many-tinted butterflies.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSONThey love flowers, and butterflies and human beings; and they were particularly fond of Rudy.
RUDY AND BABETTEHANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENSave for the Porth Neigr men, the blue and sulphur butterflies and the rabbits, the sandhills were extraordinarily deserted.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSIts front yard was fragrant with lilacs, noisy with crickets, fluttering with butterflies of sulphur yellow.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITESome of us has botanised, and some's collected butterflies, and one and all we've read the books set down for us in the Syllabus.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSIndeed, as the hot August days went by, each one was marked by its butterflies more definitely than by anything else.
SINISTER STREET, VOL. 1COMPTON MACKENZIEWORDS RELATED TO BUTTERFLIES
- all-overs
- angst
- ants in pants
- apprehension
- botheration
- butterflies
- care
- cold sweat
- concern
- creeps
- disquiet
- disquietude
- distress
- doubt
- downer
- drag
- dread
- fidgets
- flap
- foreboding
- fretfulness
- fuss
- goose bumps
- heebie-jeebies
- jitters
- jumps
- misery
- misgiving
- mistrust
- nail-biting
- needles
- nervousness
- panic
- pins and needles
- restlessness
- shakes
- shivers
- solicitude
- suffering
- suspense
- sweat
- trouble
- uncertainty
- unease
- uneasiness
- watchfulness
- willies
- worriment
- afraid
- aghast
- antsy
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bugged
- butterflies
- careful
- choked
- clutched
- concerned
- disquieted
- distressed
- disturbed
- dreading
- fearful
- fidgety
- fretful
- hacked
- hyper
- in a state
- in a tizzy
- in suspense
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervous
- nervy
- overwrought
- restless
- scared
- shaking
- shaky
- shivery
- shook-up
- shot to pieces
- solicitous
- spooked
- strung-out
- sweating bullets
- taut
- troubled
- uneasy
- unglued
- unquiet
- uptight
- watchful
- wired
- worried sick
- wreck
- afraid
- alarmed
- biting nails
- butterflies
- concerned
- disquieted
- doubtful
- feel in bones
- foreboding
- frozen
- get vibes
- have a hunch
- have cold feet
- have funny feeling
- have stage fright
- hung up
- in a cold sweat
- in a dither
- in a sweat
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mistrustful
- running scared
- shaky
- stiff
- suspicious
- troubled
- uncertain
- uneasy
- uptight
- weak
- worried
- worried sick
- abashed
- afraid
- aghast
- alarmed
- anxious
- butterflies
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- cowed
- dismayed
- fearful
- frozen
- have cold feet
- having kittens
- hung up
- in a cold sweat
- in a panic
- in a sweat
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- numb
- panicky
- petrified
- pushing the panic button
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared stiff
- shaky
- shivery
- sissy
- spooked
- startled
- terrified
- terror-stricken
- terrorized
- unnerved
- uptight
- yellow
- agitation
- all-overs
- anger
- animation
- butterflies
- cold sweat
- creeps
- delirium
- discomfiture
- disquiet
- disquietude
- dithers
- excitability
- feverishness
- fidget
- fidgets
- flap
- fluster
- fuss
- impatience
- jump
- jumps
- moodiness
- neurasthenia
- neuroticism
- perturbation
- quivers
- sensitivity
- shakes
- shiver
- stage fright
- stimulation
- stress
- tension
- timidity
- tizzy
- to-do
- touchiness
- tremble
- trembles
- tremulousness
- turbulence
- uneasiness
- willies
- worry
- agitation
- all-overs
- anger
- animation
- butterflies
- cold sweat
- creeps
- delirium
- discomfiture
- disquiet
- disquietude
- dithers
- excitability
- feverishness
- fidgets
- flap
- fluster
- fuss
- impatience
- jitters
- jumps
- moodiness
- neurasthenia
- neuroticism
- perturbation
- quivers
- sensitivity
- shakes
- stage fright
- stimulation
- stress
- tension
- timidity
- tizzy
- to-do
- touchiness
- trembles
- tremulousness
- turbulence
- uneasiness
- willies
- worry
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.