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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