skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous
(adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained
(adjective) guided by whim and fancy; “flighty young girls”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
flighty (comparative flightier, superlative flightiest)
Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
(of a bird) That flies easily or often.
(obsolete) Swift.
Source: Wiktionary
Flight"y, a.
1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.
2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. Coleridge. A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. J. S. Har
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
