flighty

Other forms of flighty

comparative or superlative

flightier

comparative or superlative

flightiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flighty

What does flighty mean?

flighty means "guided by whim and fancy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flighty?

flighty has 2 syllables: fligh-ty. The stress falls on "fligh". In IPA it is /ˈflaɪti/.

What is another word for flighty?

Close synonyms include flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained, skittish, spooky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flighty a common word?

flighty is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.