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Definition of Scatterbrained
1. Adjective. Lacking sense or discretion. "How rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"
2. Adjective. Guided by whim and fancy. "Flighty young girls"
Similar to: Frivolous
Derivative terms: Flightiness
Definition of Scatterbrained
1. a. Giddy; thoughtless.
Definition of Scatterbrained
1. Adjective. Having the qualities of a scatterbrain. ¹
2. Adjective. absent-minded, forgetful, distractable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scatterbrained
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scatterbrained
Literary usage of Scatterbrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"This is what our thick-headed boy and our scatterbrained girl have been doing
all the time in all other studies, so far as they were doing anything at all ..."
2. The Anatomy of Negation by Edgar Saltus (1886)
"Should she destine another to be scatterbrained and imbecile, scatterbrained and
imbecile will he become. There is no merit, no blame, to be ascribed to her ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... the Jungle" and the "Road-Song of the Bandar- Log* which accentuates the satire
embodied in the description of the boastful, scatterbrained Monkey Folk. ..."
4. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"... is a condition which has a real opposite in the confused, dazed, scatterbrained
state which in French is called distraction, ..."
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