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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: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (scattier; -est) Etymology: probably from scatterbrain + ¹-y Date: 1911 chiefly British crazy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (scattier, scattiest) Brit. colloq. scatterbrained; disorganized. Derivatives: scattily adv. scattiness n. Etymology: abbr.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as scatty, you mean that they often forget things or behave in a silly way. (BRIT INFORMAL) Her mother is scatty and absent-minded. = scatterbrained ADJ