scatterbrained
Adjective: 1. Easily distracted or disorganized; lacking concentration: Describes a person who is forgetful, has difficulty focusing, or is prone to careless errors due to a disorganized mind. 2. Frivolous or flighty; guided by whims rather than serious thought: Describes a person who is not serious or dependable, often acting on sudden impulses.
- Describing a forgetful or disorganized person:
- She's so scatterbrained that she locked her keys in the car twice this week.
- I can be scatterbrained in the morning before I've had my coffee.
- Describing a frivolous or flighty person:
- The scatterbrained character in the novel was charming but entirely unreliable.
- He dismissed her ideas as scatterbrained and impractical.
- The term often carries a mild, sometimes affectionate criticism when describing forgetfulness. However, it can be more pejorative when implying a lack of seriousness or discretion.
- It is typically used as an adjective to describe a person or their behavior, not objects or abstract concepts.
- "To be scatterbrained": A common phrase describing a person's habitual state.
- Ever since the baby was born, I've been completely scatterbrained.
- Scatterbrain (noun): A person who is scatterbrained.
- He's a lovable scatterbrain, always forgetting his appointments.
- Flighty (adj.): Similar to the second meaning, suggesting frivolity and capriciousness.
- Absent-minded (adj.): Similar to the first meaning, focusing more on forgetfulness due to deep thought rather than disorganization.
- Forgetful
- Disorganized
- Flighty
- Featherbrained
- Rattlebrained (as in the reference context)
- Organized
- Methodical
- Attentive
- Level-headed
While there is no common idiom using the exact word "scatterbrained," the state is often described with related phrases: - "To have a head like a sieve": To be very forgetful. - I have a head like a sieve today; I can't remember anything. - "To be all over the place": To be disorganized or unfocused in one's thoughts or actions. - Her presentation was a bit all over the place, very scatterbrained.
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guided by whim and fancy
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flighty young girls
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lacking sense or discretion
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his rattlebrained crackpot ideas
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how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for- Glenway Westcott
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