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scatterbrained definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott [syn: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty]
2: guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1747 having the characteristics of a scatterbrain

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also scatter-brained If you describe someone as scatterbrained, you mean that they often forget things and are unable to organize their thoughts properly. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, blank, brainless, capricious, changeable, changeful, dazed, desultory, deviable, dippy, dizzy, dopey, eccentric, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, erratic, fast and loose, featherbrained, featherheaded, fickle, fitful, flibbertigibbet, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluttery, freakish, frivolous, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, harebrain, harebrained, hollow, impetuous, impulsive, inane, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jejune, mazy, mercurial, moody, rambling, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, restless, roving, scramblebrained, shapeless, shatterbrained, shifting, shifty, shuffling, silly, spasmodic, spineless, thoughtless, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacant, vacillating, vacuous, vagrant, vapid, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, witless