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adjective

Flighty adj.

Fleeting; swift; transient. "The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it."

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." "A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast."

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Etymology of 'Flighty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flighty" Quotes from Famous Books

... higher." And meantime she strove to gain daily a wider knowledge of the Christ-principle, and its application to the needs and problems of her fellow-men. Her business was the reflection of her Father's business. Other ambition she had none. The weak, transient, flighty, so-called intellectual life which she saw about her sent no call across the calm currents of her thought. Her education was religious in the strictest, deepest sense, for she ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... natives of the south of France so much apparently constitutional ardour; but such the fact appears to be. This count is one of the most extravagant of all the hot-brained race I have mentioned. He indulges and feeds his flighty fancy by reading books of chivalry, and admiring the most romantic of the ...

— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

... and it was as a relief from that, I think, that he took up politics of the rabid sort. He was a fanatical Radical—a Socialist—or typical Liberal, as they used to call themselves, of the advanced school. Energetic—flighty—undisciplined. Overwork upon a controversy did this for him. I remember the pamphlet he wrote—a curious production. Wild, whirling stuff. There were one or two prophecies. Some of them are already exploded, some of them are established facts. But for the most part to read ...

— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells

... Sanchia, had married a Captain Sinclair, who was stationed at Aldershot. She had been the romp of former days and, when the storm had burst, hotly on the culprit's side. But Vicky had been flighty, and marriage changes one. Sanchia's eyes grew wistful as she sat, her letters on the wing, ...

— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett

... man, in his broken way, replied that then he (the herb-doctor) was the person he sought—the person spoken of by the other person as yet unknown. He then, with flighty eagerness, wanted to know who this last person was, and where he was, and whether he could be trusted with ...

— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville

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