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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained]
2: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) [syn: skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (flightier; -est) Date: 1552 1. swift 2. lacking stability or steadiness: a. easily upset ; volatile <a flighty temper> b. easily excited ; skittish <a flighty horse> c. capricious, silly • flightily adverb • flightiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (flightier, flightiest) 1 (usu. of a girl) frivolous, fickle, changeable. 2 crazy. Derivatives: flightily adv. flightiness n. Etymology: FLIGHT(1) + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flighty Flight"y, a. 1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. --Shak. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(flightier, flightiest) If you say that someone is flighty, you disapprove of them because they are not very serious or reliable and keep changing from one activity, idea, or partner to another. Isabelle was a frivolous little fool, vain and flighty. ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Giddy, wild, volatile, mercurial, frivolous, capricious, fickle, whimsical, unbalanced, light-headed, without ballast.

Moby Thesaurus

abnormal, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, bereft of reason, birdbrained, birdwitted, brainsick, buoyant, capricious, changeable, changeful, coquettish, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, desultory, deviable, dippy, disoriented, distraught, dizzy, dotty, eccentric, effervescent, empty-headed, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fast and loose, featherbrained, fickle, fitful, flickering, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, fluffy, freakish, frivolous, frothy, gay, giddy, hallucinated, harebrained, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insane, irrational, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, light, light-headed, lively, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mazy, mental, mentally deficient, mercurial, meshuggah, moody, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, quicksilver, rambling, rattlebrained, reasonless, reckless, restless, roving, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-witted, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, sick, silly, skittish, spasmodic, spineless, sprightly, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, superficial, tetched, thoughtless, touched, toying, unaccountable, unbalanced, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unhinged, unpredictable, unprofound, unreliable, unrestrained, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, versatile, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wild, wishy-washy, witless