Flight’y, a.

adjective

(flĭt’ÿ), a. 1. Fleeting; swift; transient.

The flighty purpose never is o’ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

Sense 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, &c.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile, giddy.

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

The younger branches of the nobility . . . denounced the holy monk as a harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. J. S. Harford.