Another word for flighty
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Adjective
Given to lighthearted silliness
- Having a whirling sensation and a tendency to fall.
- Bewildered or confused:
- Scatterbrained or silly.
- Silly; crazy.
- Completely absorbed, infatuated, or excited:
- Senile; doddering.
- Having or exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense; foolish.
- Lacking seriousness or responsibleness; frivolous:
- Semiconscious; dazed:
- Having the qualities of a scatterbrain.
- absent-minded, forgetful, distractable.
- Not being burdened by trouble, worry, or care; happy and carefree.
- Having or showing little sense; foolish:
- Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.
- Causing or capable of causing dizziness:
- Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty:
- Made of, covered with, or resembling froth; foamy.
- Playfully frivolous in character or content:
- Unworthy of serious attention; trivial:
- Inappropriately silly:
- Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- Lacking sense or discretion; scatterbrained.
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Another word for flighty
Modifier
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- Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.
- Causing or capable of causing dizziness:
- Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty:
- Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
- Characterized by, arising from, or subject to caprice; impulsive or unpredictable:
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