scatty

/'skæti/

Thân thiện

She had a scatty look as she searched for her keys.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Absent-minded, forgetful, or easily distracted: Describes a person who is often lost in thought, preoccupied, or not paying attention to their immediate surroundings.
   • Silly, foolish, or lacking common sense: Describes a person, idea, or action that is impractical, irrational, or shows poor judgment.

Usage and Examples

• Describing an absent-minded person:

  • She's so scatty; she left her keys in the refrigerator.
  • The scatty professor was always forgetting his lectures.

• Describing foolish or impractical ideas/behavior:

  • It was a scatty plan with no chance of success.
  • Don't be scatty! Lock the door when you leave.

Advanced Usage

• "to be/go scatty": to become or act in a scatterbrained or foolish manner.
  • I've gone completely scatty in my old age, forgetting everything.

Variants and Related Words

• Scatterbrained (adj): Having a disorganized or forgetful mind; very similar in meaning to 'scatty'.
  • He's a lovable but scatterbrained friend.

Synonyms

• Absent-minded: Lost in thought and unaware of one's surroundings.
• Featherbrained: Silly and empty-headed.
• Flighty: Fickle and irresponsible.
• Giddy: Frivolous and lighthearted, not serious.

Antonyms

• Attentive: Paying close attention.
• Sensible: Having or showing good judgment.
• Level-headed: Sensible and calm.

Idioms and Phrases

• To have a scatty moment: To have a brief period of forgetfulness or silliness.
  • I just had a scatty moment and called you by the wrong name.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. lost in thought; showing preoccupation
   • an absent stare
   • an absentminded professor
   • the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
2. lacking sense or discretion
   • his rattlebrained crackpot ideas
   • how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for- Glenway Westcott

Từ đồng nghĩa

• absent
• absentminded
• abstracted
• rattlebrained
• rattlepated
• scatterbrained