Dictionary Definition
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]
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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