Dictionary entry

Flighty

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Flight″y (?), a. 1. Fleeting; swift; transient.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,

Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

2. 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.

Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. Coleridge.

A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. J. S. Harford.