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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. showing inappropriate levity;
[syn: flippant, light-minded]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flippant \Flip"pant\, a. [Prov. E. flip to move nimbly; cf. W. llipa soft, limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. Flip, Fillip, Flap, Flipper.] 1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. [1913 Webster] It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. --Barrow. [1913 Webster] 2. Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant. "Flippant epilogues." --Thomson. [1913 Webster] To put flippant scorn to the blush. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster] A sort of flippant, vain discourse. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flippant \Flip"pant\, n. A flippant person. [R.] --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

flippant adj 1: showing inappropriate levity [syn: flippant, light- minded]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

108 Moby Thesaurus words for "flippant": airy, bantering, belittling, biggety, bluff, booing, brash, brazen, careless, casual, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, cursory, degage, derisive, derisory, discourteous, dismissive, disregardant, disregardful, disrespectful, easygoing, facetious, facy, fleering, flip, fooling, forgetful, free and easy, fresh, frivolous, gally, gratuitous, grinning, heedless, hissing, hooting, impertinent, impudent, inconsiderate, indifferent, insolent, insouciant, irreverent, jeering, jocular, joshing, kidding, lazy, leering, light-hearted, malapert, mocking, nervy, oblivious, offhand, offhanded, panning, perfunctory, pert, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, reckless, regardless, respectless, ridiculing, roasting, rude, sassy, saucy, scoffing, scornful, shallow, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, supercilious, superficial, tactless, taunting, teasing, thoughtless, twitting, uncalled-for, undiplomatic, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unprepared, unready, unserious, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, wise-ass