flighty

flight·y (fl

)

adj. flight·i·er, flight·i·est

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 [ˈflaɪtɪ]

adj flightier, flightiest

1. frivolous and irresponsible; capricious; volatile

2. mentally erratic, unstable, or wandering

3. flirtatious; coquettish

flightily adv

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) She was a frivolous fool, vain and flighty.

Translations

flighty [ˈflaɪtɪ] ADJ (flightier (compar) (flightiest (superl))) [idea, remark] → frívolo, poco serio; [girl] → caprichoso, voluble

flighty [ˈflaɪti] adj [person] → inconstant(e)

flighty

adj (+er) (= fickle) → unbeständig, flatterhaft; (= empty-headed) → gedankenlos

flighty [ˈflaɪtɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → capriccioso/a, frivolo/a

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airhead
Bird-witted
coquettish
dizzy
empty-headed
featherbrain
fickle
flyaway
forgetful person
giddy
Giddy-paced
hare-brained
head-in-the-clouds
light-headed
mercurial
Moody
scatterbrain
scatterbrained
simpleton

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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