Antonyms for flightiness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : flahy-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈflaɪ ti


Definition of flightiness

Origin :
  • 1550s, "swift," later (1768) "fickle or frivolous," originally of skittish horses; from flight (n.1) + -y (2). Related: Flightiness.
  • noun irresponsibility
Example sentences :
  • Her flightiness or inconstancy was of the most dangerous kind.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
  • They were perplexed at his 'flightiness'—wanted him to enter the loco.
  • Extract from : « The Life of James McNeill Whistler » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • That was well enough for her in her days of flightiness and frivolity.
  • Extract from : « Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete » by Lyndon Orr
  • Alice is a lovely girl; just the equable temperament to balance his flightiness.
  • Extract from : « Alone » by Marion Harland
  • Her flightiness would have driven any man crazy who had an opinion of his own.
  • Extract from : « The Newcomes » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Three disrespectful sisters: importunity, frivolity, flightiness.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Irish Poetry » by Various
  • I do not write it from flightiness, but from thoughtfulness.
  • Extract from : « The Life of George Borrow » by Herbert Jenkins
  • Three irreverent sisters: importunity, frivolity, flightiness.
  • Extract from : « The Triads of Ireland » by Kuno Meyer
  • There is but one thing I could wish otherwise in them, and that is a certain tendency to flightiness.
  • Extract from : « Charlotte Bront » by T. Wemyss Reid
  • And when she would not give it him, in his flightiness he seized the pinjara, and flew up to heaven with it in the form of a bird.
  • Extract from : « The Kath Sarit Sgara » by Somadeva Bhatta

Synonyms for flightiness

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