flighty (flit i)

[= D. vlugtig, volatile, = G. flüchtig = Dan. flygtig = Sw. flyktig, flighty; as flight + -y1.] 1. Indulging in flights or sallies of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; fickle; capricious; slightly delirious; wandering in mind. The flighty gambols of chance are objects of no science, nor grounds of any dependance whatever. A. Tucker , Light of Nature, III. xxvi. Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. Cole ridge. Mr. Ding well was a man of a flighty and furious tem per. J. S. Le Fanu , Tenants of Mollory, xxxiv. 2. Fleeting; swift; transient. [Rare.] The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unle the deed go with it. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1.