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Synonyms for hovering:


adj. buoyant

soaring
free
hollow
inflated
light
loose
sailing
swimming
volatile
wafting
nonsubmersible
unattached
unsinkable
unsubstantial

adj. in the air, winged

aerial
floating
soaring
drifting
express
flapping
fleet
fluttering
gliding
mobile
plumed
streaming
swooping
waving
winging
zooming
aeronautical
airborne
avian
mercurial
speedy
volant
volar
volitant

adj. tall; at a great distance aloft

big
great
huge
immense
large
lofty
long
soaring
steep
tremendous
aerial
elevated
giant
grand
alpine
altitudinous
colossal
eminent
formidable
gigantic
high-reaching
high-rise
sky-high
sky-scraping
towering
uplifted
upraised

adj. forthcoming

approaching
brewing
imminent
looming
coming
gathering
menacing
near
nearing
overhanging
portending
threatening
ominous
proximate

Examples of uses:

If I go with you and get talking to her, then you'll be hovering, hovering.
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I used to be in the hovering club! I was the youngest ever in the hovering marathon!
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I lay hovering between consciousness and unconsciousness.
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His soul is here, over us, it's hovering in the air.
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You know, I thought I saw a man hovering over there.
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Don't they normally leave one hovering in the hall?
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Perth, the blacksmith, lived amidst thick, hovering flights of sparks.
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A helicopter was hovering overhead and a guy with a megaphone shouted:
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Isn't there a zebra carcass somewhere you should be hovering over?
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
I've seen military aircraft that use it hovering right over my trailer.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf

Antonyms for hovering:

low