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flighty

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flight·y  (flt)
adj. flight·i·er, flight·i·est
1.
a. Given to capricious or unstable behavior.
b. Characterized by irresponsible or silly behavior.
2. Easily excited; skittish.
flighti·ly adv.
flighti·ness n.
flighty
Adjective
[flightier, flightiest] frivolous and not very reliable or serious
flightiness n
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Adj.1.flighty - guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls"
flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained
frivolous - not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman"
2.flighty - unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
skittish, spooky, nervous
excitable - easily excited
flighty
adjective frivolous, wild, volatile, unstable, irresponsible, dizzy, fickle, unbalanced, impulsive, mercurial, giddy, capricious, unsteady, thoughtless, changeable, impetuous, skittish, light-headed, harebrained, scatterbrained, ditzy or ditsy (slang)
Translations
flighty [ˈflaɪtɪ] adj → caprichoso


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She's flighty, you know - very flighty - quite flighty enough to pass her days in a sedan-chair.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
They scoured the roads, they searched the woods and all quarters, and at the end of three days they found the flighty Leandra in a mountain cave, stript to her shift, and robbed of all the money and precious jewels she had carried away from home with her.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
Some of the strange questions put to me by the woman in white, after my ill-considered promise to leave her free to act as she pleased, had suggested the conclusion either that she was naturally flighty and unsettled, or that some recent shock of terror had disturbed the balance of her faculties.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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