Need another word that means the same as “hover”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “hover” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Hover” are: linger, brood, bulk large, loom, oscillate, vacillate, vibrate, levitate, be suspended, be poised, hang, float, drift, fly, flutter, balance, hold steady, hold oneself steady, steady oneself, hang suspended, remain motionless, hang in mid-air, loiter, wait about, stay nearby
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “hover” as a verb can have the following definitions:
balance | Bring into balance or equilibrium. The law requires the council to balance its books each year. |
be poised | Spend or use time. |
be suspended | Happen, occur, take place. |
brood | Be in a huff and display one’s displeasure. The male pheasant tailed jacana takes over once the eggs are laid and broods them. |
bulk large | Cause to bulge or swell outwards. |
drift | (of a person or their attention) digress or stray to another subject. My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school. |
float | Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom. Float data. |
flutter | (of a bird or other winged creature) fly unsteadily or hover by flapping the wings quickly and lightly. The seagulls fluttered overhead. |
fly | Hit a fly. Man cannot fly. |
hang | Be suspended or hanging. We ll be walking along just hanging chilling. |
hang in mid-air | Let drop or droop. |
hang suspended | Suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste. |
hold oneself steady | Have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices. |
hold steady | Organize or be responsible for. |
levitate | Cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity. I swear to God he levitated over the bar. |
linger | Be slow to disappear or die. The shy student lingered in the corner. |
loiter | Be about. The weather had tempted them to loiter along the banks of the Cherwell. |
loom | Weave on a loom. Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall. |
oscillate | (of a circuit or device) cause the electric current or voltage running through it to vary in magnitude or position in a regular manner about a central point. The grain pan near the front of the combine oscillates back and forth. |
remain motionless | Continue in a place, position, or situation. |
stay nearby | Fasten with stays. |
steady oneself | Make steady. |
vacillate | Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern. The line on the monitor vacillated. |
vibrate | Quiver with (a quality or emotion. The cabin started to vibrate. |
wait about | Wait before acting. |
aeronaut | Someone who operates an aircraft. |
airborne | Moved or conveyed by or through air. Airborne pollutants. |
aircraft | An aeroplane, helicopter, or other machine capable of flight. |
airman | A member of the US navy whose general duties are concerned with aircraft. |
airplane | A powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces; an aeroplane. The flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane. |
ascend | Come up, of celestial bodies. Inheritance may not ascend linearly. |
aviator | A pair of aviator sunglasses. He has a short grey beard and wears a flannel shirt jeans and aviator glasses. |
brink | A point at which something, typically something unwelcome, is about to happen; the verge. The country was on the brink of a constitutional crisis. |
butterfly | Flutter like a butterfly. Butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife. |
flap | Pronounce with a flap of alveolar sounds. Gulls flapped around uttering their strange cries. |
fledged | (of an arrow) equipped with feathers. A newly fledged Detective Inspector. |
float | A floating device on the surface of a liquid which forms part of a valve apparatus controlling flow in and out of the enclosing container e g in a water cistern or a carburettor. She relaxed floating gently in the water. |
fly | Cause to fly or float. Balls kept flying over her hedge. |
landing | An intermediate platform in a staircase. The landing of men on the moon. |
levitate | Rise or cause to rise and hover in the air, typically by means of supposed magical powers. The guru claimed that he could levitate. |
linger | Take one’s time; proceed slowly. She let her eyes linger on him suggestively. |
moth | A clothes moth. I store my sweaters in plastic bags to protect them from moths. |
overhead | An overhead compartment especially on an aircraft. The sun was directly overhead. |
parachute | Drop from an aircraft by parachute. A parachute regiment. |
pilot | Be the pilot of an aircraft or ship. Many expected him to get the job as Desert Orchid s pilot. |
plane | Cut or remove with or as if with a plane. Plane the top of the door. |
porthole | A window in a ship or airplane. |
pterodactyl | (in general use) any pterosaur. |
pterosaur | A fossil flying reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with membranous wings supported by a greatly lengthened fourth finger. |
round | Pronounce with rounded lips. She did the rounds of her family to say goodbye. |
sortie | A short trip or journey. This latest book is the author s first sortie into non fiction. |
verge | A ceremonial or emblematic staff. His behavior verges on the criminal. |
volant | Relating to or characterized by flight. A falcon volant. |
wing | Shoot a bird in the wing so as to prevent flight without causing death. A candidate from the liberal wing of the party. |
winged | Very fast; as if with wings. The earliest winged insects. |
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