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flighty
[
flahy
-tee
]
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Origin
flight·y
/
ˈflaɪ
ti
/
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[
flahy
-tee
]
Show IPA
adjective,
flight·i·er,
flight·i·est.
1.
given to
flights
of fancy; capricious; frivolous.
2.
slightly delirious; light-headed; mildly crazy.
3.
irresponsible:
He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.
4.
Archaic
.
swift or fleet.
Origin:
1545–55;
flight
1
+
-y
1
Related forms
flight·i·ly,
adverb
flight·i·ness,
noun
un·flight·y,
adjective
Synonyms
1.
mercurial, undependable, irresponsible.
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In a manic episode, the person is typically
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and distractable, talking excitedly about idea after idea.
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interior decorators.
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In a manic episode, the person is typically
flighty
and distractable, talking excitedly about idea after idea.
It reduces gay men to little more than
flighty
interior decorators.
The popular answer is industry, rather than
flighty
finance.
They moved restively, as
flighty
and fine-boned as caged birds.
Perfect for capturing
flighty
pets or rambunctious kids.
On television she was typically cast as
flighty
somewhat forgetful.
The bonds' defenders also say they offer secure coverage for many years, as opposed to annual negotiations with
flighty
insurers.
When you first play the game, there's this tutorial with a
flighty
fairy telling you how the game works.
It could even have been the inspiration for this
flighty
and photogenic farce.
Capital-markets firms are courting deposits and shunning
flighty
wholesale funding.
Charlotte projects the
flighty
gentility of an eccentric older woman who couldn't hurt a fly.
She is neither
flighty
nor lascivious but all too human and young in a predicament she simply cannot handle.
From the perspective of hedge fund managers, funds of funds also proved to be
flighty
investors during the crisis.
Tolliver's approach is simultaneously introspective and
flighty
.
Donnelly, who has a
flighty
dis regard for anyone other than herself.
COLLAPSE
Collins
World English Dictionary
flighty
(ˈflaɪtɪ)
—
adj
,
flightier
,
flightiest
1.
frivolous and irresponsible; capricious; volatile
2.
mentally erratic, unstable, or wandering
3.
flirtatious; coquettish
'flightily
—
adv
'flightiness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
flighty
1550s, "swift," later (1768) "fickle or frivolous," originally of skittish horses; from
flight
(1) +
-y
. Related: Flightiness.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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