Flight"y (?), a.
1.
Fleeting; swift; transient.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it.
Shak.
2.
Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind.
Coleridge.
A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast.
J. S. Harord.
© Webster 1913.