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flighty (encz) | flighty,nestálý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
flighty (encz) | flighty,přelétavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Flighty (gcide) | Flighty \Flight"y\, a.
1. Fleeting; swift; transient.
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The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it. --Shak.
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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.
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Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind.
--Coleridge.
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A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast.
--J. S.
Harford.
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flighty (wn) | flighty
adj 1: guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn:
flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds,
scatterbrained]
2: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) [syn:
skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous] |
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