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Definition of flowing in English:

flowing

adjective ˈfləʊɪŋˈfloʊɪŋ
  • 1(especially of long hair or clothing) hanging or draping loosely and gracefully.

    a long flowing gown of lavender silk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He brushed his flowing hair behind his ears and leant forwards towards the wiry man, who was one of his ‘intrepid explorers’.
    • She fluffed her flowing hair and smiled charmingly at me.
    • The flowing hair was being braided neatly as she sat, satisfied, near a window seat, chatting with her companion.
    • Ryo Hazuki, the title's central character, is a perfectly realised virtual human, right down to his flowing hair.
    • Tall and beautiful, with long, fair, flowing locks, Griffin could be a schoolteacher, a college lecturer or a trendy university librarian.
    • She stood in the hallway in another one of her typical flowing dresses, her hair tied up this time and a small pair of silver glasses resting on her nose.
    • The dress Allie was wearing was a strapless white and flowing gown that fell to her ankles.
    • He was dressed in dark flowing clothing; she couldn't place the colour in the darkness.
    • She wore a flowing dress of light lavender, a complement to the slight olive tint of her skin.
    • She rode on the ocean's surface with the moon illuminating her flowing hair and garments.
    • Another option is a pull-on skirt - choose either a straight or softly flowing style.
    • Love the suit jackets and the flowing dress shirts.
    • His wife and business partner, Elizabeth, is also in black, a flowing dress that echoes her glossy black hair and highlights her porcelain-pale skin.
    • Cassie always wanted to have long flowing hair like her mother.
    • He sat next to her, and as she brushed her incredibly long flowing hair out of the way, her lonely but beautiful blue eyes met his deep brown ones.
    • Bring a festive, flowing robe (maybe some flowers in your hair) and leave your inhibitions at the door.
    • The flowing hair and the thick beard, like an Old Testament prophet's, are intact; the lean figure and upright posture as taut as ever.
    • The technology will help women realise their dream of long, beautiful healthy flowing hair like Rapunzel's.
    • Some of them were talking to the young woman, conservatively-dressed in blouse and flowing skirt with suit jacket, standing beside them.
    • Favorite materials are flowing and elegant fabrics, like brocade, lace, satin, chiffon.
    Synonyms
    loose, hanging loose/free, unconfined
    limp, flaccid, floppy
    informal flowy
    1. 1.1 (of a line or contour) smoothly continuous.
      the flowing curves of the lawn
      Example sentencesExamples
      • From the ground, the flowing lines of the columns that used to rise skyward to a height of 1,360 approximately looked like the slim trunks of a closely planted row of trees.
      • It looks more adventurous, too, what with its curvy rump, flowing lines and funky lights fore and aft.
      • The pilot had a throw-over hatch that conformed to the flowing line on the canopy.
      • Ascending along this road, you open a valley broad and shallow, a wide green trough of pastures and hedges merging inland into a vista of purple tints and flowing lines closing the view.
      • Melody was expressed by line, tempi by flowing curves or short zigzags, and pitch by nuances of colour.
      • The car's flowing lines and sleek profile hint at Volkswagen's design influence.
      • You are clothed in a raiment of ecru, perfectly molded to your smooth flowing curves.
      • The forms he invented are usually very simple: they are slender and curving and create continuous flowing lines.
      • Deliberately avoiding the gothic style of classic trophies, he chose sleek, flowing lines in a rising tribute to sporting achievement.
      • That sloping top tube extends the flowing lines to the rear triangle a treat.
      • Curves are some of the most beautiful thing that nature has given us, the flowing lines, smooth and gentle.
      • It has no sharp edges, only non-aggressive flowing lines.
      • They have transformed the Folly's exhibition space with flowing lines, several six-feet partitions and books detailing each person and their journey.
      • The flowing contours reflect and resolve the different scales of the various parts of the building.
      • The images of the flower, bird and star were reproduced with smooth, flowing lines.
      • The flowing lines and sweeping shapes of a little-known medieval sculptor are enough to tarnish Rodin's reputation.
      • Forget the visual overload philosophy of Ferrari or Lamborghini, beautiful flowing lines and soft curves is where it's at.
      • If necessary, grinding should be done to maintain smooth flowing contours.
      • Romantic art appeals strongly to people's emotions and usually consists of flowing lines and shapes.
      • A snake slithered over its flowing contours, settling into a small hollow beneath the mound.
      Synonyms
      sleek, streamlined, trim, aerodynamic, smooth, clean, uncluttered, unfussy
      elegant, graceful
      technical faired
    2. 1.2 Graceful and fluent.
      a flowing prose style
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His writing is graceful, flowing and confident.
      • Williams writes with a clear and flowing style; he also furnishes the historian with a paradigm for writing a college's history.
      • Scrupulously researched and presented in an open, flowing prose, these works have reached a far wider audience than those of the majority of academic social historians.
      • He has produced a comfortable read with flowing prose and bite-sized chapters.
      • It would be untrue to suggest, however, that the attractive, flowing style evinced by this team stems directly from Kerr's football philosophy.
      • Throughout his book, White maintains a flowing style and compresses a large number of facts into a highly readable history.
      • Each movement was flowing and graceful, as delicate as a butterfly.
      • Most they put immediately back because they were written in Dimish and the Neraks could not read the graceful, flowing script.
      • Her detractors gleefully held up her lack of articulateness in comparison to the flowing narrative of her prose.
      • His racquet moves in graceful, flowing patterns, each follow-through full and intentional.
      • On the other hand Calsy had more of a ballet dancer's with his flowing and graceful moves as he nailed each step at the exact time he was told.
      • The varied and consistently gifted voices use flowing prose to honor myriad erotic expressions of black sensuality.
      • Others paid tribute to a man who gave the impression that he wrote with all the time in the world, in an easy flowing style.
      • If their flowing style isn't working - usually when Henry is off the boil - they are dead.
      • The book and the tale of Wright's contribution to Loyalist terror are made even more gripping by Anderson's flowing writing style.
      • Sir Samuel has a flowing style of writing that never gets bogged down or turgid.
      • Therefore, in a kata demonstration competition, I think our style might be no match for the flowing style of others.
      Synonyms
      fluent, fluid, free-flowing, effortless, easy, natural, smooth, unbroken, uninterrupted, continuous, graceful, elegant

Derivatives

  • flowingly

  • adverb
    • Not only are they drinking, but throwing back their heads so the water or juice and go down flowingly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They moved around the floor flowingly, with practiced ease from both of them.
      • Simon adroitly dodges the kick, flowingly stepping to the side.
      • She wore a white scarf, wrapped flowingly over her neck and shoulders.
      • If buildings are being bombarded by suppressive fire, they destruct flowingly like a real building would.

Rhymes

easygoing, going, knowing, mowing, outgoing, showing, sowing, thoroughgoing, toing and froing
 
 

Definition of flowing in US English:

flowing

adjectiveˈfloʊɪŋˈflōiNG
  • 1(especially of long hair or clothing) hanging or draping loosely and gracefully.

    a long flowing gown of lavender silk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of them were talking to the young woman, conservatively-dressed in blouse and flowing skirt with suit jacket, standing beside them.
    • His wife and business partner, Elizabeth, is also in black, a flowing dress that echoes her glossy black hair and highlights her porcelain-pale skin.
    • He brushed his flowing hair behind his ears and leant forwards towards the wiry man, who was one of his ‘intrepid explorers’.
    • He sat next to her, and as she brushed her incredibly long flowing hair out of the way, her lonely but beautiful blue eyes met his deep brown ones.
    • He was dressed in dark flowing clothing; she couldn't place the colour in the darkness.
    • Cassie always wanted to have long flowing hair like her mother.
    • The flowing hair and the thick beard, like an Old Testament prophet's, are intact; the lean figure and upright posture as taut as ever.
    • She fluffed her flowing hair and smiled charmingly at me.
    • Love the suit jackets and the flowing dress shirts.
    • The technology will help women realise their dream of long, beautiful healthy flowing hair like Rapunzel's.
    • Ryo Hazuki, the title's central character, is a perfectly realised virtual human, right down to his flowing hair.
    • She stood in the hallway in another one of her typical flowing dresses, her hair tied up this time and a small pair of silver glasses resting on her nose.
    • Another option is a pull-on skirt - choose either a straight or softly flowing style.
    • The flowing hair was being braided neatly as she sat, satisfied, near a window seat, chatting with her companion.
    • Favorite materials are flowing and elegant fabrics, like brocade, lace, satin, chiffon.
    • She rode on the ocean's surface with the moon illuminating her flowing hair and garments.
    • The dress Allie was wearing was a strapless white and flowing gown that fell to her ankles.
    • Bring a festive, flowing robe (maybe some flowers in your hair) and leave your inhibitions at the door.
    • Tall and beautiful, with long, fair, flowing locks, Griffin could be a schoolteacher, a college lecturer or a trendy university librarian.
    • She wore a flowing dress of light lavender, a complement to the slight olive tint of her skin.
    Synonyms
    loose, hanging free, hanging loose, unconfined
    1. 1.1 (of a line or contour) smoothly continuous.
      the flowing curves of the lawn
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A snake slithered over its flowing contours, settling into a small hollow beneath the mound.
      • Deliberately avoiding the gothic style of classic trophies, he chose sleek, flowing lines in a rising tribute to sporting achievement.
      • The flowing lines and sweeping shapes of a little-known medieval sculptor are enough to tarnish Rodin's reputation.
      • From the ground, the flowing lines of the columns that used to rise skyward to a height of 1,360 approximately looked like the slim trunks of a closely planted row of trees.
      • The car's flowing lines and sleek profile hint at Volkswagen's design influence.
      • Romantic art appeals strongly to people's emotions and usually consists of flowing lines and shapes.
      • The images of the flower, bird and star were reproduced with smooth, flowing lines.
      • It has no sharp edges, only non-aggressive flowing lines.
      • The forms he invented are usually very simple: they are slender and curving and create continuous flowing lines.
      • You are clothed in a raiment of ecru, perfectly molded to your smooth flowing curves.
      • The flowing contours reflect and resolve the different scales of the various parts of the building.
      • That sloping top tube extends the flowing lines to the rear triangle a treat.
      • If necessary, grinding should be done to maintain smooth flowing contours.
      • Forget the visual overload philosophy of Ferrari or Lamborghini, beautiful flowing lines and soft curves is where it's at.
      • Melody was expressed by line, tempi by flowing curves or short zigzags, and pitch by nuances of colour.
      • The pilot had a throw-over hatch that conformed to the flowing line on the canopy.
      • It looks more adventurous, too, what with its curvy rump, flowing lines and funky lights fore and aft.
      • They have transformed the Folly's exhibition space with flowing lines, several six-feet partitions and books detailing each person and their journey.
      • Ascending along this road, you open a valley broad and shallow, a wide green trough of pastures and hedges merging inland into a vista of purple tints and flowing lines closing the view.
      • Curves are some of the most beautiful thing that nature has given us, the flowing lines, smooth and gentle.
      Synonyms
      sleek, streamlined, trim, aerodynamic, smooth, clean, uncluttered, unfussy
    2. 1.2 (of language, movement, or style) graceful and fluent.
      a flowing prose style
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His racquet moves in graceful, flowing patterns, each follow-through full and intentional.
      • Scrupulously researched and presented in an open, flowing prose, these works have reached a far wider audience than those of the majority of academic social historians.
      • The book and the tale of Wright's contribution to Loyalist terror are made even more gripping by Anderson's flowing writing style.
      • The varied and consistently gifted voices use flowing prose to honor myriad erotic expressions of black sensuality.
      • If their flowing style isn't working - usually when Henry is off the boil - they are dead.
      • On the other hand Calsy had more of a ballet dancer's with his flowing and graceful moves as he nailed each step at the exact time he was told.
      • Most they put immediately back because they were written in Dimish and the Neraks could not read the graceful, flowing script.
      • Sir Samuel has a flowing style of writing that never gets bogged down or turgid.
      • Williams writes with a clear and flowing style; he also furnishes the historian with a paradigm for writing a college's history.
      • Throughout his book, White maintains a flowing style and compresses a large number of facts into a highly readable history.
      • Each movement was flowing and graceful, as delicate as a butterfly.
      • It would be untrue to suggest, however, that the attractive, flowing style evinced by this team stems directly from Kerr's football philosophy.
      • Her detractors gleefully held up her lack of articulateness in comparison to the flowing narrative of her prose.
      • Others paid tribute to a man who gave the impression that he wrote with all the time in the world, in an easy flowing style.
      • His writing is graceful, flowing and confident.
      • He has produced a comfortable read with flowing prose and bite-sized chapters.
      • Therefore, in a kata demonstration competition, I think our style might be no match for the flowing style of others.
      Synonyms
      fluent, fluid, free-flowing, effortless, easy, natural, smooth, unbroken, uninterrupted, continuous, graceful, elegant
 
 
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