FLIGHTY

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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

2.
a.

Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. Coleridge. A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. J. S. Har


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