flighty

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective guided by whim and fancy
  2. adjective unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

Etymology

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

In classic literature

Synonyms

flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained

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