head-in-the-clouds

1. 1.

   guided by whim and fancy

   “flighty young girls”

   Synonymsflightyflyawayscatterbrained

   Similarfrivolous

Questions about head-in-the-clouds

What does head-in-the-clouds mean?

head-in-the-clouds means "guided by whim and fancy".

How many syllables are in head-in-the-clouds?

head-in-the-clouds has 5 syllables: he-a-d-in--the--clouds. The stress falls on "d-in-".

What is another word for head-in-the-clouds?

Close synonyms include flighty, flyaway, scatterbrained. 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 head-in-the-clouds a common word?

head-in-the-clouds is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.