flightier; flightiest
1
: swift
2
: lacking stability or steadiness:
a
: easily upset : volatile
a flighty temper
b
: easily excited : skittish
a flighty horse
c
: capricious, silly
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
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Such matters were neither trivial nor flighty.
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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
The source of Nora’s flighty, noncommital personality is never explained.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Her Nora seems flighty and light-hearted – as her husband seems to see her – until a crisis begins to take shape within their house.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
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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
The source of Nora’s flighty, noncommital personality is never explained.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Her Nora seems flighty and light-hearted – as her husband seems to see her – until a crisis begins to take shape within their house.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
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“Flighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flighty. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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