Meaning of FLIGHTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'flItee
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- [adj] absent-mindedly irresponsible; "he said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor"
- [adj] irresponsibly frivolous; "flighty young girls"
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| | Synonyms: | | flyaway, frivolous, head-in-the-clouds, irresponsible, scatterbrained |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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