🧑‍🦱 A stray hair 🎈 Unpredictable behavior 💨 Loose and light

flyaway

8.5

Likely to act on sudden ideas without careful planning

adjective
/ˈflaɪəˌweɪ/

Informal

: inconstante

She has such a flyaway personality!

Examples

The flyaway decisions of youth often lead to unexpected adventures.
People described him as flyaway due to his ever-changing whims.
Her flyaway nature made it hard for her to commit to a single plan.
His flyaway ideas often leave others confused.
Her flyaway thoughts made it hard for her to focus on the lecture.
He always has such a flyaway attitude, never sticking to one plan for long.
Despite her friends' seriousness, she maintained her flyaway demeanor, ready to change directions at a moment's notice.

Synonyms

flighty

vsflyaway

9 7.4

A person who changes plans and loses interest easily

is driven by sudden whims and fanciful ideas rather than steady intent

Antonyms

reliable

358 2.7

Able to be trusted to do what is expected

steady

304 2.0

Not changing over time and remaining the same

How Capricious

fickle

39 6.2

flyaway

Informal

8.5

erratic

94 6.1

flighty

9 7.4

Surface Forms

flyaway positive

Morphology

flyaway = fly + away (semi-transparent) = fly + away

Meaning 'capricious, flighty' is a metaphorical extension from 'fly' + 'away' and is not fully predictable from the literal components.

Etymology

Flyaway comes from fly 'to move through the air' and away 'off from here'. It gives the picture of ideas or plans that can quickly 'fly away' like a bird, so a flyaway person is changeable and not steady.