Flighty
['flaɪtɪ]
Definition
(a.) Fleeting; swift; transient.
(a.) 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.
Edited by Kathleen
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Giddy, wild, volatile, light-headed, without ballast.
Typist: Owen
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ECCENTRIC]
Typed by Beryl
Examples
- Granting that to be the right reading of the riddle, it accounted, perhaps, for her flighty, self-conceited manner when she passed me in the hall. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Women can't draw--their minds are too flighty, and their eyes are too inattentive. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At last I began to believe, that, in the flighty and unsettled state of his mind, he had either forgotten his intention or abandoned it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You are always an honourable and straightforward fellow, as far as lays in your power, though a little flighty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I knew there was a great deal of nonsense in her--a flighty sort of Methodistical stuff. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She's flighty, you know,--very flighty,--quite flighty enough to pass her days in a sedan-chair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Young ladies are too flighty. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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