flightier; flightiest
1
: lacking stability or steadiness:
a
: easily upset : volatile
a flighty temper
b
: easily excited : skittish
a flighty horse
c
: capricious, silly
2
: swift
Examples of flighty in a Sentence
an actress who specializes in playing silly, flighty women
you have to be quiet while the deer are grazing, as they are flighty animals and will run if they hear you
Recent Examples on the Web
Matilda, a recent high school graduate, has grown up with a flighty mother and a revolving door of homes.
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Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Ellen and Paul have four kids, who are all quite different, from Zoey Deutch’s strait-laced lawyer Cynthia to her more flighty sisters Anna (Madeline Brewer) and Birdie (Mckenna Grace).
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
Such matters were neither trivial nor flighty.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
The trouble of flighty photons Simon Devitt, research director at the Centre for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology, Sydney, thinks PsiQuantum’s focus on skipping the NISQ regime and jumping straight to full fault tolerance is a good approach.
—Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Oct. 2025
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Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Ellen and Paul have four kids, who are all quite different, from Zoey Deutch’s strait-laced lawyer Cynthia to her more flighty sisters Anna (Madeline Brewer) and Birdie (Mckenna Grace).
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
Such matters were neither trivial nor flighty.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
The trouble of flighty photons Simon Devitt, research director at the Centre for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology, Sydney, thinks PsiQuantum’s focus on skipping the NISQ regime and jumping straight to full fault tolerance is a good approach.
—Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Flighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flighty. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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