flighty

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: flight=y
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

flighty, a. 

•  Fleeting; swift; transient.  [1913 Webster]

  "The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
  Unless the deed go with it."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind."  [1913 Webster]

  "A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flighty, adj. (flightier, flightiest)
1 (usu. of a girl) frivolous, fickle, changeable.
2 crazy.

Derivative

flightily adv. flightiness n.

Etymology

FLIGHT(1) + -Y(1)

THESAURUS

flighty

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

ROGET THESAURUS

flighty

Insanity

N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.

Imagination

N imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration, verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, mind's eye, such stuff as dreams are made of, ideality, idealism, romanticism, utopianism, castle-building, dreaming, phrensy, frenzy, ecstasy, extasy, calenture, reverie, trance, day dream, golden dream, somnambulism, conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, a fine frenzy, cloudland, dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, thick coming fancies, creation of the brain, coinage of the brain, imagery, conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera, phantasm, phantasy, fantasy, fancy, whim, whimsey, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza, air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare, flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne, Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland, land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon, work of fiction, Arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of Alnashar, illusion, phantom, Fata Morgana, vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis, idealist, romanticist, visionary, mopus, romancer, dreamer, somnambulist, rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector, imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, imaginative, original, inventive, creative, fertile, romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial, illusory, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythic, mythological, chimerical, imaginary, visionary, notional, fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, fairy, fairy-like, gestic, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, fancy light from fancy caught, imagination rules the world, l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, Wahrheil und Dichtung, DIVISION II COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS.