Definition of "flighty" []

• Given to capricious or unstable behavior. (adjective)
• Characterized by irresponsible or silly behavior. (adjective)
• Easily excited; skittish. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "America's obsession with the superficial and the flighty is a reflection of its excessive preoccupation with entertainment and glamour."
• "Thus the readers meet the heroine, immediately after the call her flighty best friend and soon afterward the vampire-author."
• "When your faculty of awareness is flighty – in other words, when your mind gets distracted to many things – direct your way of gazing and faculty of imagination at the black drop."