Adjective complement with noun phrase

• feel: Well, I'm usually a rum and coke fan, but maybe I'm feeling a bit more flighty this evening.

Modifies a noun

• butterfly: The flighty white butterfly was a Green-veined White ( corrected entry ).

• creature: He posits a peculiar weak version of the individual, a flighty creature cruelly ensnared by the authoritarian institution of marriage.

• cousin: Science fiction is the flirty, flighty, naughty cousin of popular science.

• melody: Rare Breed's tunes owe less to riffs and more to flighty melodies hopping between instruments.

• wife: The sullen husband, the flighty wife, is no longer there to plague the innocent spouse.

Modifying Another Word

• very: There were a number of them, but they were very flighty and it took me ages to get a decent image.

• rather: They were rather flighty and moved along the beach after a couple of minutes.

• quite: The birds roam over a large area between the Church and the lower slopes of the hill and can be quite flighty.

• too: Some ducks are just too flighty to come in over stronger species.

• so: This was extremely difficult because they were so flighty.

• even: But she too regarded monogamy as the natural state of grace, while hoping that even flighty ladies might attain it.