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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.Definition 2024
flighty
flighty
English
Adjective
flighty (comparative flightier, superlative flightiest)
- (obsolete) swift
- Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
- (of a bird) that flies easily, or a lot
- 2013, Diego Gil, Henrik Brumm, Avian Urban Ecology
- "We know that flighty birds suffer from greater risk of raptor predation, and I assume that it is useful to understand the effects of urbanization because flighty species may be more vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbance."
- 2013, Diego Gil, Henrik Brumm, Avian Urban Ecology
Translations
given to silly ideas
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(of a bird) that flies easily, or a lot
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