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Webster 1913 Edition
Flighty
Flight′y
,Adj.
1.
Fleeting; swift; transient.
The
Unless the deed go with it.
flighty
purpose never is o’ertook,Unless the deed go with it.
Shakespeare
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Flighty
FLIGHTY
, a.1.
Fleeting; swift.The flighty purpose never is o'ertook.
2.
Wild; indulging the sallies of imagination.3.
Disordered in mind; somewhat delirious.