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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Given to capricious or unstable behavior.
  2. adj. Characterized by irresponsible or silly behavior.
  3. adj. Easily excited; skittish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Indulging in flights or sallies of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; fickle; capricious; slightly delirious; wandering in mind.
  2. Fleeting; swift; transient.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Given to unplanned, and silly ideas or actions.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Fleeting; swift; transient.
  2. adj. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. guided by whim and fancy
  2. adj. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

Examples

  • “America's obsession with the superficial and the flighty is a reflection of its excessive preoccupation with entertainment and glamour.”

    America The Stupid

  • “Thus the readers meet the heroine, immediately after the call her flighty best friend and soon afterward the vampire-author.”

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  • “When your faculty of awareness is flighty – in other words, when your mind gets distracted to many things – direct your way of gazing and faculty of imagination at the black drop.”

    Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Two: A Stilled and Settled State of Shamatha

  • “Who can forget the 16yr old girl hanged for being a bit 'flighty'?”

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  • “Marion is kind of flighty and Jack is very uncomfortable in his skin and in Europe, and descends quickly into a pathetic typical American tourist taking way too many pictures and wanting everything to be exactly as it is at home.”

    Melissa Silverstein: 2 Days In Paris

  • “Take the end of scene 1: the ingenue a mezzo rather than a soprano; in Slavic operas it was common for the "flighty" character to have a heavier voice than the "serious" character tells off the heroine's drunken, mother-fixated husband, then soliloquizes about her own sympathy for the heroine, but can't shake the feeling that it's not any of her business.”

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  • “She was personality-wise kind of flighty and bubbly and was always cooking in some way.”

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  • “Adults are wild, generally intractable, and "flighty," but young animals (at least of the Asian species) tame readily and make good pets.”

    26 Mouse Deer

  • “She's been in a ragin 'fever an' kind of flighty most of the time.”

    Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir

  • “Isabel had been made acquainted with the estimate which prevailed under this roof; it represented Mr. Osmond’s sister as a kind of flighty reprobate.”

    Chapter XXVI

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