[syn: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scatter-brained \Scat"ter-brained`\, a.
Giddy; thoughtless.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shatter-brained \Shat"ter-brained`\, Shatter-pated
\Shat"ter-pat`ed\, a.
Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild;
similar to scatter-brained. --J. Goodman.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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, scatterbrained, scatty]
2: guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn:
flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained]