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Definition of Flighty
1. Adjective. Guided by whim and fancy. "Flighty young girls"
Similar to: Frivolous
Derivative terms: Flightiness
2. Adjective. Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses).
Similar to: Excitable
Derivative terms: Nervousness, Skittishness
Definition of Flighty
1. a. Fleeting; swift; transient.
Definition of Flighty
1. Adjective. Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flighty
1. fickle [adj FLIGHTIER, FLIGHTIEST] - See also: fickle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flighty
Literary usage of Flighty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright (1878)
"... exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it:
from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of ..."
2. The Semantic Development of Words for Mental Aberration in Germanic by Hartie Emil Zabel (1922)
"flighty. Words for 'flighty' are applied to the insane because of their ying over
all logic and all mental restraint.. E. dial, carried (up in the ..."
3. Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis (1864)
"... Machine for every General—Tlie accounts mixed up Mr. Lincoln gets flighty over
them—Ihe Major Puts him to bed, and applies a mustard-plaster—He Revives, ..."
4. The New System of Educating Horses Including Instructions on Feeding by Dennis Magner (1872)
"... even, full, but clear or dark in color, restless and sensitive in action, a
flighty unreliable character will be exhibited—Is a free driver if a bright ..."
5. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Together with a Few of Later Years and by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1889)
"I have a goose sitting on five eggs—a rather flighty sort of character—quite a
goose of the world in fact, who from time to time drives 3 Cf. p. ..."
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