adjective
- tending to fly away or become loose and uncontrolled, especially hair
- impractical or unrealistic
Usage: informal
noun
- a person who is flighty or irresponsible
Usage: informal
Examples
- Her flyaway hair kept getting in her eyes during the windy day.
- The humidity made her normally smooth hair become flyaway and frizzy.
- He dismissed her ideas as flyaway dreams with no basis in reality.
- The professor criticized the student’s flyaway theories about time travel.
- Don’t be such a flyaway – we need someone dependable for this project.
- She used hair spray to tame her flyaway locks before the interview.
- His flyaway attitude made it hard for others to take him seriously.