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
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Before Astoria was Zelda, a single hen named for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s flighty wife, who lived at the park for 10 years — more than double the average lifespan of a wild turkey.
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
Matilda, a recent high school graduate, has grown up with a flighty mother and a revolving door of homes.
—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
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
Matilda, a recent high school graduate, has grown up with a flighty mother and a revolving door of homes.
—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
See All Example Sentences for flighty
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“Flighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flighty. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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