# flighted

Pronunciation: say "FLYT-id" /ˈflaɪtɪd/

## Adjective

1. Capable of flight; able to take off and move through the air.
   - Simple: Able to move through the air by flying.
   - _Bats are the only flighted mammals capable of true powered flight._
   - _The young condors became flighted and soared above the canyon walls._
2. Having developed flight feathers, as a bird does upon reaching maturity.
   - Simple: Having grown the wing feathers a bird needs in order to fly.
   - _The eaglets were fully flighted by late summer and began leaving the nest._
   - _Keepers wait until a chick is flighted before moving it to the outdoor aviary._
4. Having a specified number or kind of flights, as in a staircase or a screw thread.
   - Simple: Made with a certain number or kind of flights, as in stairs or screw threads.
   - _The old tower stairs were flighted in two runs that met at a landing._
   - _Engineers chose a finely flighted screw to advance the part smoothly._

## Verb

3. Simple past and past participle of flight. — simple past and past participle of flight
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of flight. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _The spinner flighted the delivery high to deceive the batter._
   - _The fletcher flighted the arrows with stiff goose quills._

## Origin

Formed from "flight" combined with the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/flighted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).