Thesaurus / flighty
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synonyms for flighty
- capricious
- giddy
- unstable
- airheaded
- birdbrained
- bubbleheaded
- changeable
- dingbat
- dingdong
- dizzy
- effervescent
- empty-headed
- featherbrained
- frivolous
- gaga
- harebrained
- impetuous
- impulsive
- inconstant
- lightheaded
- lively
- mercurial
- scatterbrained
- silly
- thoughtless
- twit
- unbalanced
- unsteady
- volatile
- whimsical
- wild
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There have been any number of similar statements in recent years, claims that some people are simply too uninformed or flighty to be allowed to cast a ballot.
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THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWeve got to live somehow, and if you get a good job stick to it, say Inone of your highty flighty notions.
CHAINSELIZABETH BAKERShe is sweetly pretty, though they say rather a flirt, and flighty in her ways.
WOOD MAGICRICHARD JEFFERIESShe was flighty and frivolous, evasive and obstinate, fond of pleasures not always innocent.
THE STONES OF PARIS IN HISTORY AND LETTERS, VOLUME I (OF 2)BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTINHe did write to Mr. Wharton, but in doing so he altogether laid aside that flighty manner which for a while had annoyed her.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPE"Take comfort," rejoined Ishtar, glad to do a kindness even for this flighty dame.
SARCHEDONG. J. (GEORGE JOHN) WHYTE-MELVILLERobert now beheld all that was in its favour, and saw nothing but flighty flimsy objections to it.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHWORDS RELATED TO FLIGHTY
- accidental
- any which way
- bits and pieces
- blind
- capricious
- careless
- casual
- chance
- desultory
- directionless
- drifting
- erratic
- fanciful
- fickle
- fits and starts
- flighty
- fortuitous
- frivolous
- goalless
- haphazard
- heedless
- hit-or-miss
- indecisive
- indiscriminate
- irresolute
- objectless
- pointless
- purposeless
- random
- shiftless
- stray
- thoughtless
- unavailing
- undirected
- unguided
- unplanned
- unpredictable
- vagrant
- wandering
- wanton
- wayward
- any way the wind blows
- arbitrary
- blowing hot and cold
- careless
- changeful
- contrary
- crotchety
- effervescent
- erratic
- every which way
- fanciful
- fickle
- fitful
- flaky
- flighty
- freakish
- gaga
- helter-skelter
- humorsome
- impulsive
- inconstant
- kinky
- lubricious
- mercurial
- moody
- mutable
- notional
- odd
- picky
- punchy
- queer
- quirky
- temperamental
- ticklish
- unpredictable
- unreasonable
- unstable
- up and down
- vagarious
- variable
- volatile
- wayward
- whimsical
- yo-yo
- agitated
- capricious
- changeful
- commutative
- convertible
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- fluctuating
- fluid
- impulsive
- inconstant
- indecisive
- irregular
- irresolute
- irresponsible
- kaleidoscopic
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- mutable
- permutable
- protean
- restless
- reversible
- revocable
- shifting
- skittish
- spasmodic
- transformable
- transitional
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- vacillating
- vagrant
- variable
- variant
- varying
- versatile
- volatile
- wavering
- whimsical
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