2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flighty \Flight"y\, a.
1. Fleeting; swift; transient.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the
deed go with it --Shak.
2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of
imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered
fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy;
eccentric; slighty delirious.
Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind.
--Coleridge.
A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast.
--J. S.
Harford.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
flighty
adj 1: irresponsibly frivolous; "flighty young girls" [syn: {flyaway}]
2: absent-mindedly irresponsible; "he said I was too flighty to
be a good supervisor" [syn: {head-in-the-clouds}, {scatterbrained}]
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