The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of "scatter-brained".
He said it was when one of the funniest scatter-brained old pussies he'd ever met came marching into his bedroom out in the West Indies, with a fluffy pink scarf round her neck, telling him he was to get up and do something to prevent a murder.
Kinnison pere explained quite patiently -- for him -- that all he had got out of the little fracas was a split lip, that young Northrop's hair wasn't even mussed, and that if everybody had been packing guns some scatter-brained young damn fool like him would have started blasting and blown everything higher than up -- would have spoiled.
Badly co-ordinated, it seemed to me, scatter-brained, and in a condition of some emotion which I thought on the whole was fear.
Well do I know that you think me scatter-brained, but I’ve as good a right to be here as you.
But Valentin heard a whisper that Brayne, like so many scatter-brained sceptics, was drifting to us.