Nearby Words

scatterbrained

[skat-er-breyn]

scat·ter·brain

[skat-er-breyn]
noun
a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
Also, scat·ter·brains.


Origin:
1780–90; scatter + brain

scat·ter·brained, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To scatterbrained

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Scatterbrained is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Collins
World English Dictionary
scatterbrained (ˈskætəˌbreɪnd)
 
adj
exhibiting or characterized by lack of serious thought or concentration; disorganized; silly

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Slang Dictionary

scatterbrain definition


  1. n.
    a forgetful person; someone who is mentally disorganized. : Aunt Martha is a real scatterbrain. She always forgets where her glasses are.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature