flighty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite guided by whim and fancy
    flyaway; head-in-the-clouds; scatterbrained.
    • flighty young girls
  2. adjective satellite unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
    spooky; skittish; nervous.

WordNet

Flight"y adjective
Definitions
  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 disorder 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. Harord.

Webster 1913