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flighty
English
Etymology
From flight +? -y. Compare Dutch vluchtig (“volatile; fleeting; cursory”), German flüchtig (“volatile; fleeting; momentary; quick”), Danish flygtig (“elusive; evasive”), Swedish flyktig.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fla?ti/
Adjective
flighty (comparative flightier, superlative flightiest)
- Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
- (of a bird) That flies easily or often.
- 2013, Diego Gil, Henrik Brumm, Avian Urban Ecology
- "We know that flighty birds suffer from greater risk of raptor predation, and I assume that it is useful to understand the effects of urbanization because flighty species may be more vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbance."
- 2013, Diego Gil, Henrik Brumm, Avian Urban Ecology
- (obsolete) Swift.
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notional
English
Etymology
notion +? -al
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n????n?l/
- Rhymes: -????n?l
Adjective
notional (comparative more notional, superlative most notional)
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- 1995, Walter D. Edmonds, In the Hands of the Senecas (page 137)
- She knew what Pete would say if she told him about it — he would say she was getting notional; and she did not want Pete to think of her as a notional woman. Notional women sometimes had a hard time marrying unless they had money.
- 1995, Walter D. Edmonds, In the Hands of the Senecas (page 137)
Derived terms
- notionality
- notionally
Translations
Noun
notional (plural notionals)
- A fake company used as a front in espionage.
- 2012, Joseph C. Goulden, Peter Earnest, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak Into English (page 157)
- Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.
- 2012, Joseph C. Goulden, Peter Earnest, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak Into English (page 157)
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