Flighty vs Zany - What's the difference?
flighty | zany |
unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish
ludicrously or incongruously comical
(obsolete) A fool or clown. Especially one whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown
* John Donne
* Alexander Pope
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
As adjectives the difference between flighty and zany
is that flighty is given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions while zany is unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish.As a noun zany is
(obsolete) a fool or clown especially one whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.zany
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* wackyDerived terms
* zaninessNoun
(zanies)- Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany .
- Preacher at once, and zany of thy age.
- So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground. You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.