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flighty

/ˈflaɪti/

flighty adjective: given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.

Adjective

flighty (comparative flightier, superlative flightiest)

  1. Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
  2. 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 disturbance."2013, Diego Gil, Henrik Brumm, Avian Urban Ecology
  3. (dated) 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

flighty meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

flighty in Urdu

من موجی, مذبذب, وہمی

flighty in Malayalam

mercurial, fickle, inconstant
അസ്ഥിരം, അസ്ഥിര, അടിക്കടിമാറുന്ന, അനിത്യമായ, ക്ഷണികമായ, ചഞ്ചല

Forms of flighty

comparativeflightier
superlativeflightiest

Origin of flighty

From flight + -y. Compare Dutch vluchtig (“volatile; fleeting; cursory”), German flüchtig (“volatile; fleeting; momentary; quick”), Danish flygtig (“elusive; evasive”), Swedish flyktig.

Words formed from flighty

Words that rhyme with flighty

Questions about flighty

What does flighty mean?
Flighty means given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
What is flighty in Urdu?
Flighty in Urdu is من موجی, مذبذب, وہمی. See Flighty meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is flighty?
Flighty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce flighty?
Flighty is pronounced /ˈflaɪti/.

Words near flighty in the dictionary

  1. flightshot
  2. flightsome
  3. flightsuit
  4. flightworthiness
  5. flightworthy
  6. flighty
  7. flim
  8. flim flam
  9. flim-flam
  10. flim-flams
  11. Flimby

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flighty (page history and authors); flighty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flighty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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