Dictionary Definition
flighty adj
1 irresponsibly frivolous; "flighty young girls"
[syn: flyaway]
2 absent-mindedly irresponsible; "he said I was
too flighty to be a good supervisor" [syn: head-in-the-clouds,
scatterbrained]
[also: flightiest,
flightier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
flighty- Given to unplanned, and silly ideas or actions.
Translations
- Finnish: kevytmielinen
- Czech: nestálý, přelétavý
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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