Flippant

Adjective

 * 1)  glib.
 * 2)  nimble; limber.
 * 3) Lacking respect or seriousness, showing levity; pert.
 * 4) * 2000, Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
 * In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
 * 1) * Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
 * The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.
 * 1) * Allen Carr, Allen Carrs Easyway To Stop Smoking
 * Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.

Adverbs for Flippant
impertinently; carelessly; insouciantly; audaciously; daringly; brazenly; charmingly; attractively; giddily; heedlessly; jauntily; saucily; unblushingly; shamelessly; wantonly; unduly; disrespectfully; comically; inappropriately; unbecomingly; inopportunely; youthfully; glibly; smartly; inconsiderately; sacrilegiously; terribly.

Synonyms for Flippant
cheeky, saucy, bold, impertinent, playful, pert, forward, glib, talkative, voluble, irreverent, careless, disrespectful.

Antonyms for Flippant
serious, respectful, reverent, reserved, quiet, courteous, retiring.

Derived terms

 * flippancy

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand:, present participle of flip:, of origin. Cognate with Icelandic fleipa:, Swedish dialectal flepa:. Alteration of -and: suffix (a variant of the participial -ing:) to -ant: probably due to influence of words in undefined:.

Translations

 * Dutch: oneerbiedig, spottend
 * Finnish: epäkunnioittava ,
 * French: ,


 * Icelandic:
 * Norwegian:, ,

Adjective

 * 1)  Surprising.
 * 2)  Worrying; scary.