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
disordered 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. Harford.