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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)

  1. Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
  2. (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."
  3. (obsolete) Swift.

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vacillating

English

Verb

vacillating

  1. present participle of vacillate

Adjective

vacillating (comparative more vacillating, superlative most vacillating)

  1. Liable to vacillate; wavering, irresolute.

Translations

Noun

vacillating (plural vacillatings)

  1. vacillation
    • 1949, The Modern Quarterly (volume 5, page 52)
      It was vacillatings, misgivings, and deliberate calculations of this kind that paved the way []

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