Scatterbrained

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scatter-brained \Scat"ter-brained`\, a.
     Giddy; thoughtless.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Shatter-brained \Shat"ter-brained`\, Shatter-pated
  \Shat"ter-pat`ed\, a.
     Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild;
     similar to {scatter-brained}. --J. Goodman.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scatterbrained
       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},
               {scatty}]
       2: absent-mindedly irresponsible; "he said I was too flighty to
          be a good supervisor" [syn: {flighty}, {head-in-the-clouds}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "scatterbrained":
     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