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flighty |
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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