Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to capricious or unstable behavior.
- adjective Characterized by irresponsible or silly behavior.
- adjective Easily excited; skittish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Indulging in flights or sallies of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; fickle; capricious; slightly delirious; wandering in mind.
- Fleeting; swift; transient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fleeting; swift; transient.
- adjective 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Given to unplanned and
silly ideas or actions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective guided by whim and fancy
- adjective unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
Etymologies
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Examples
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America's obsession with the superficial and the flighty is a reflection of its excessive preoccupation with entertainment and glamour.
America The Stupid 2008
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Thus the readers meet the heroine, immediately after the call her flighty best friend and soon afterward the vampire-author.
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Thus the readers meet the heroine, immediately after the call her flighty best friend and soon afterward the vampire-author.
Mortal Touch-Inanna Arthen « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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When your faculty of awareness is flighty – in other words, when your mind gets distracted to many things – direct your way of gazing and faculty of imagination at the black drop.
Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Two: A Stilled and Settled State of Shamatha the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug-dorjey 2008
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Who can forget the 16yr old girl hanged for being a bit 'flighty'?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Marion is kind of flighty and Jack is very uncomfortable in his skin and in Europe, and descends quickly into a pathetic typical American tourist taking way too many pictures and wanting everything to be exactly as it is at home.
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Take the end of scene 1: the ingenue a mezzo rather than a soprano; in Slavic operas it was common for the "flighty" character to have a heavier voice than the "serious" character tells off the heroine's drunken, mother-fixated husband, then soliloquizes about her own sympathy for the heroine, but can't shake the feeling that it's not any of her business.
Archive 2006-03-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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She was personality-wise kind of flighty and bubbly and was always cooking in some way.
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She was personality-wise kind of flighty and bubbly and was always cooking in some way.
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Adults are wild, generally intractable, and "flighty," but young animals (at least of the Asian species) tame readily and make good pets.
26 Mouse Deer 1991
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