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Absentminded type
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scatterbrain
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a flighty and disorganized person [syn: forgetful person ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scatterbrain may refer to: Scatterbrain (band) , an American band active in the early 1990s Scatterbrain (book) , by Larry Niven, published in 2003 Scatterbrain (album) , by The Xcerts released in 2010 "Scatterbrain" (song) , a B-side to "The Final Peace" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also scatter-brain , "thoughtless, giddy person, one incapable of serious, connected thought," 1764 ( scatter-brained ), from scatter (v.) + brain (n.). Related: Scatterbrained . Compare scatter-good "spendthrift."
Usage examples of scatterbrain.
Nancy was the drudge, Millie the scatterbrain, old Miss Belle almost senile.
The big wigs at the Octagon are scared silly that some scatterbrains will hear about such items as the matter converters and get all steamed up with man's oldest dream.
She expected she would marry one day-most women in the Two Rivers did-but she was not like those scatterbrains she heard going on about how they could hardly wait.