flighty
Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
Adjective
- Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
- That flies easily or often.
- "We know that flighty birds suffer from greater risk of raptor predation, and I assume that it is useful to understand the effects of urbanization because flighty species may be more vulnerable to anthropogenic...
- Swift.
- Permanent way and other checks then somewhat slowed down this flighty progress. - 1962 July, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 44:
Origin
From flight + -y. Compare Dutch vluchtig (“volatile; fleeting; cursory”), German flüchtig (“volatile; fleeting; momentary; quick”), Danish flygtig (“elusive; evasive”), Swedish flyktig.