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- pronunciation:
- fluhk
chu
eIt
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
fluctuates, fluctuating, fluctuated |
| definition 1: |
to vary or change irregularly; rise and fall.
The price of gold continually fluctuates.My appetite fluctuates; some days I'm hungry all the time and other days I don't feel like eating at all.- synonyms:
- flutter, vacillate
- similar words:
- change, flicker, oscillate, seesaw, sway, swing, vary, waver, wobble, yo-yo
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| definition 2: |
to move in a wavelike pattern; undulate.
Look how the shadows fluctuate.- synonyms:
- undulate
- similar words:
- billow, flutter, ripple, surge, vacillate, wave
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| related words: |
halt, range, vacillate |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition: |
to cause to fluctuate.
- synonyms:
- flutter, undulate
- similar words:
- flicker, oscillate, ripple, wave
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| related words: |
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adverb + (v.)fluctuate
generally, typically
(v.)fluctuate
+ adverb
above, annually, considerably, constantly, daily, deal, dramatically, drastically, forth, greatly, naturally, randomly, rapidly, seasonally, significantly, somewhere, strongly, unpredictably, widely, wildly
(v.)fluctuate
+ noun
abundance, course, cycle, demand, dollar, fashion, function, intensity, measurement, meter, month, mood, peak, period, pound, season, shift, size, trend, year
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| derivation: |
fluctuating (adj.) |
The word fluctuate
contains the following parts:
flu, fluct, flux, fluv, flum
Latin
root
that means flow
  Example words:
affluent, circumfluent, confluence, conflux, effluent, effluvium, fluctuate, fluent, fluid, flume, fluvial, flux, influence, influenza, influx, refluent, superfluous
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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