'Flighty' definitions:
Definition of 'flighty'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained]
adjective
Definition of 'Flighty'
From: GCIDE
- Flighty \Flight"y\, a.
- 1. Fleeting; swift; transient. [1913 Webster]
- The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. --J. S. Harford. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flighty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- bereft of reason,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- brainsick,
- buoyant,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- coquettish,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dippy,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- dizzy,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- effervescent,
- empty-headed,
- erratic,
- faddish,
- fanciful,
- fast and loose,
- featherbrained,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fluffy,
- freakish,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- gay,
- giddy,
- hallucinated,
- harebrained,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- insane,
- irrational,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- light,
- light-headed,
- lively,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mazy,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- mercurial,
- meshuggah,
- moody,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nutty,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- psycho,
- queer,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- rattlebrained,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- sick,
- silly,
- skittish,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- sprightly,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- superficial,
- tetched,
- thoughtless,
- touched,
- toying,
- unaccountable,
- unbalanced,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unhinged,
- unpredictable,
- unprofound,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wild,
- wishy-washy,
- witless