Definition of flighty in English:

flighty

adjectiveflightiest, flightier ˈflʌɪtiˈflaɪdi

Fickle and irresponsible.
反复无常的，不负责任的，轻浮的
her mother was a flighty Southern belle
她妈妈是个轻佻的美国南方美人。
Example sentencesExamples
- This is how poor, flighty Lucy Westernra ought to float toward her demon lover - as if she were already severed from earthly ties.
- Tortola had been a flighty, silly girl, no more dangerous than a flower.
- She played vain, self-obsessed, flighty pieces in High Fidelity and America's Sweetheart, then turned utterly evil in Traffic.
- There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him.
- Although inherently changeable and flighty, those with Gemini rising don't have their heads in the clouds.
- He appears to have been a flighty, absent-minded luvvy, given to changing his mind daily during rehearsals, much to his fellow actors' annoyance.
- But like wild animals and flighty birds, our dreams are loath to be tamed.
- This is because I'm flighty and align myself constantly with faddish moral causes.
- The little gnome was scatterbrained and flighty, barely able to hold a conversation.
- The inclination is to be flighty and irresponsible.
- And finally, what I really wanted to do hasn't happened at all: my mystery novel featuring the flighty Nettie Day.
- I do resent a Government Minister telling me I got into debt because I was flighty, frivolous and decadent.
- Oh, apparently it's not my fault the writing here is bad - it's yours for being so flighty and fickle.
- My dad, incidentally, is the same, though perhaps a little less flighty.
- He had a steady head on his shoulders and was different from the whimsical flighty young boys of his age.
- Having been to Royal Ascot in Berkshire last year, my verdict was that the northern meeting was less flamboyant and eccentric, but more flighty and fashionable.
- Frivolous, flighty, whining and manipulative, she is a woman hanging on to life by her fingernails.
- She seemed so nervous and flighty, expecting something, frightened of something, anticipating something, excited by something.
- Nothing about life on a farm is skittish or flighty.
- Talk of the job banished all flighty thoughts of living in Oraulei from her mind.
Synonyms
fickle, erratic, changeable, inconstant, irresolute, mercurial, skittish, whimsical, capricious, volatile, unsteady, unstable, unbalanced, impulsive
irresponsible, flippant, giddy, silly, frivolous, light-minded, feather-brained, scatterbrained, scatty, reckless, wild, careless, thoughtless, heedless, carefree, insouciant
informal dippy, dopey, batty, dotty, nutty
British informal dappy
North American informal ditzy

Derivatives

flightily

adverb ˈflʌɪtɪliˈflaɪdəli

‘Hm, fine, have it your way,’ Dahni flightily drawled before the light on her half of the room went out.
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm mostly flightily, but somewhat seriously, thinking of forgetting grad school and being a bank teller or similar.
- She loved every one - Goffin & King's sumptuous ‘So Much Love’, Randy Newman's fragile ‘Just One Smile’, Michel Legrand's flightily bonkers ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’.
- Girl from Mantuckit sang out and sat poutingly in her chair, and began swirling in it flightily.
- The rain fell flightily, and we returned to the marina in the shadow of refueling tankers and 12-storey high container carriers that glide with bursts that belie their bulk.

flightiness

noun ˈflʌɪtɪnəsˈflaɪdinəs

But she says her need to perform springs from more than mere flightiness.
Example sentencesExamples
- He just couldn't handle Aubrey's flightiness and her diva tendencies, so he settled things quickly, efficiently, and most importantly, quietly, in divorce, back when Kaitlyn and I were tiny tots.
- Such apparent flightiness belies a solid build-up of professional experience.
- He is even honest about their flightiness, describing the band as ‘constantly running from one drama or another.’
- Smith's version in The Old Manor House plays with this expectation by transferring the typical heroine's flightiness and love - sickness to the protagonist, even as it also satirizes his virtues as a romance hero.
- A diva-like flightiness is central to her character, a loving but scatty single mum who had her first child in her mid-teens, works as a cleaner, and swings unpredictably between snappish burnout and little-girl fragility.
- The Leo Moon stabilizes the Sagittarius flightiness and inconsistency, but since both signs are ruled by fire, these individuals are enthusiastic, ambitious.
- Her acting was rather disappointing, lacking the impulsive flightiness of my ideal Dorabella, but it will be interesting to see what becomes of her voice.
- But even the brightest of its terraces are admonished for their flightiness by stern brick churches.
- He would ground her flightiness and her impulsiveness and she would lighten his sometimes-sober demeanour.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from flight + -y¹.

Rhymes

almighty, Aphrodite, Blighty, mighty, nightie

Definition of flighty in US English:

flighty

adjectiveˈflīdēˈflaɪdi

Fickle and irresponsible.
反复无常的，不负责任的，轻浮的
you may be seen as too flighty and lightweight for real responsibility
Example sentencesExamples
- Nothing about life on a farm is skittish or flighty.
- But like wild animals and flighty birds, our dreams are loath to be tamed.
- The inclination is to be flighty and irresponsible.
- This is how poor, flighty Lucy Westernra ought to float toward her demon lover - as if she were already severed from earthly ties.
- Oh, apparently it's not my fault the writing here is bad - it's yours for being so flighty and fickle.
- I do resent a Government Minister telling me I got into debt because I was flighty, frivolous and decadent.
- Talk of the job banished all flighty thoughts of living in Oraulei from her mind.
- She played vain, self-obsessed, flighty pieces in High Fidelity and America's Sweetheart, then turned utterly evil in Traffic.
- There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him.
- He had a steady head on his shoulders and was different from the whimsical flighty young boys of his age.
- Frivolous, flighty, whining and manipulative, she is a woman hanging on to life by her fingernails.
- My dad, incidentally, is the same, though perhaps a little less flighty.
- Tortola had been a flighty, silly girl, no more dangerous than a flower.
- And finally, what I really wanted to do hasn't happened at all: my mystery novel featuring the flighty Nettie Day.
- He appears to have been a flighty, absent-minded luvvy, given to changing his mind daily during rehearsals, much to his fellow actors' annoyance.
- Although inherently changeable and flighty, those with Gemini rising don't have their heads in the clouds.
- This is because I'm flighty and align myself constantly with faddish moral causes.
- Having been to Royal Ascot in Berkshire last year, my verdict was that the northern meeting was less flamboyant and eccentric, but more flighty and fashionable.
- The little gnome was scatterbrained and flighty, barely able to hold a conversation.
- She seemed so nervous and flighty, expecting something, frightened of something, anticipating something, excited by something.
Synonyms
fickle, erratic, changeable, inconstant, irresolute, mercurial, skittish, whimsical, capricious, volatile, unsteady, unstable, unbalanced, impulsive

Origin

Mid 16th century: from flight + -y.

单词	flighty
释义	Definition of flighty in English: flighty adjectiveflightiest, flightier ˈflʌɪtiˈflaɪdi Fickle and irresponsible. 反复无常的，不负责任的，轻浮的 her mother was a flighty Southern belle 她妈妈是个轻佻的美国南方美人。 Example sentencesExamples This is how poor, flighty Lucy Westernra ought to float toward her demon lover - as if she were already severed from earthly ties. Tortola had been a flighty, silly girl, no more dangerous than a flower. She played vain, self-obsessed, flighty pieces in High Fidelity and America's Sweetheart, then turned utterly evil in Traffic. There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him. Although inherently changeable and flighty, those with Gemini rising don't have their heads in the clouds. He appears to have been a flighty, absent-minded luvvy, given to changing his mind daily during rehearsals, much to his fellow actors' annoyance. But like wild animals and flighty birds, our dreams are loath to be tamed. This is because I'm flighty and align myself constantly with faddish moral causes. The little gnome was scatterbrained and flighty, barely able to hold a conversation. The inclination is to be flighty and irresponsible. And finally, what I really wanted to do hasn't happened at all: my mystery novel featuring the flighty Nettie Day. I do resent a Government Minister telling me I got into debt because I was flighty, frivolous and decadent. Oh, apparently it's not my fault the writing here is bad - it's yours for being so flighty and fickle. My dad, incidentally, is the same, though perhaps a little less flighty. He had a steady head on his shoulders and was different from the whimsical flighty young boys of his age. Having been to Royal Ascot in Berkshire last year, my verdict was that the northern meeting was less flamboyant and eccentric, but more flighty and fashionable. Frivolous, flighty, whining and manipulative, she is a woman hanging on to life by her fingernails. She seemed so nervous and flighty, expecting something, frightened of something, anticipating something, excited by something. Nothing about life on a farm is skittish or flighty. Talk of the job banished all flighty thoughts of living in Oraulei from her mind. Synonyms fickle, erratic, changeable, inconstant, irresolute, mercurial, skittish, whimsical, capricious, volatile, unsteady, unstable, unbalanced, impulsive irresponsible, flippant, giddy, silly, frivolous, light-minded, feather-brained, scatterbrained, scatty, reckless, wild, careless, thoughtless, heedless, carefree, insouciant informal dippy, dopey, batty, dotty, nutty British informal dappy North American informal ditzy Derivatives flightily adverb ˈflʌɪtɪliˈflaɪdəli ‘Hm, fine, have it your way,’ Dahni flightily drawled before the light on her half of the room went out. Example sentencesExamples I'm mostly flightily, but somewhat seriously, thinking of forgetting grad school and being a bank teller or similar. She loved every one - Goffin & King's sumptuous ‘So Much Love’, Randy Newman's fragile ‘Just One Smile’, Michel Legrand's flightily bonkers ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’. Girl from Mantuckit sang out and sat poutingly in her chair, and began swirling in it flightily. The rain fell flightily, and we returned to the marina in the shadow of refueling tankers and 12-storey high container carriers that glide with bursts that belie their bulk. flightiness noun ˈflʌɪtɪnəsˈflaɪdinəs But she says her need to perform springs from more than mere flightiness. Example sentencesExamples He just couldn't handle Aubrey's flightiness and her diva tendencies, so he settled things quickly, efficiently, and most importantly, quietly, in divorce, back when Kaitlyn and I were tiny tots. Such apparent flightiness belies a solid build-up of professional experience. He is even honest about their flightiness, describing the band as ‘constantly running from one drama or another.’ Smith's version in The Old Manor House plays with this expectation by transferring the typical heroine's flightiness and love - sickness to the protagonist, even as it also satirizes his virtues as a romance hero. A diva-like flightiness is central to her character, a loving but scatty single mum who had her first child in her mid-teens, works as a cleaner, and swings unpredictably between snappish burnout and little-girl fragility. The Leo Moon stabilizes the Sagittarius flightiness and inconsistency, but since both signs are ruled by fire, these individuals are enthusiastic, ambitious. Her acting was rather disappointing, lacking the impulsive flightiness of my ideal Dorabella, but it will be interesting to see what becomes of her voice. But even the brightest of its terraces are admonished for their flightiness by stern brick churches. He would ground her flightiness and her impulsiveness and she would lighten his sometimes-sober demeanour. Origin Mid 16th century: from flight + -y¹. Rhymes almighty, Aphrodite, Blighty, mighty, nightie Definition of flighty in US English: flighty adjectiveˈflīdēˈflaɪdi Fickle and irresponsible. 反复无常的，不负责任的，轻浮的 you may be seen as too flighty and lightweight for real responsibility Example sentencesExamples Nothing about life on a farm is skittish or flighty. But like wild animals and flighty birds, our dreams are loath to be tamed. The inclination is to be flighty and irresponsible. This is how poor, flighty Lucy Westernra ought to float toward her demon lover - as if she were already severed from earthly ties. Oh, apparently it's not my fault the writing here is bad - it's yours for being so flighty and fickle. I do resent a Government Minister telling me I got into debt because I was flighty, frivolous and decadent. Talk of the job banished all flighty thoughts of living in Oraulei from her mind. She played vain, self-obsessed, flighty pieces in High Fidelity and America's Sweetheart, then turned utterly evil in Traffic. There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him. He had a steady head on his shoulders and was different from the whimsical flighty young boys of his age. Frivolous, flighty, whining and manipulative, she is a woman hanging on to life by her fingernails. My dad, incidentally, is the same, though perhaps a little less flighty. Tortola had been a flighty, silly girl, no more dangerous than a flower. And finally, what I really wanted to do hasn't happened at all: my mystery novel featuring the flighty Nettie Day. He appears to have been a flighty, absent-minded luvvy, given to changing his mind daily during rehearsals, much to his fellow actors' annoyance. Although inherently changeable and flighty, those with Gemini rising don't have their heads in the clouds. This is because I'm flighty and align myself constantly with faddish moral causes. Having been to Royal Ascot in Berkshire last year, my verdict was that the northern meeting was less flamboyant and eccentric, but more flighty and fashionable. The little gnome was scatterbrained and flighty, barely able to hold a conversation. She seemed so nervous and flighty, expecting something, frightened of something, anticipating something, excited by something. Synonyms fickle, erratic, changeable, inconstant, irresolute, mercurial, skittish, whimsical, capricious, volatile, unsteady, unstable, unbalanced, impulsive Origin Mid 16th century: from flight + -y.
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