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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having a weak, empty brain; light-headed; frivolous; giddy. Also feather-headed, feather-pated.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. alternative spelling of feather-brained.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. colloq. Giddy; frivolous; lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; feather-headed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity

Examples

  • “And for one brief moment, all its featherbrained feline attention was devoted to keeping its balance.”

    Fictionaut: Tran Siberian

  • “A former fêtarde* myself (and still a bit featherbrained from it) I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!”

    French Word-A-Day:

  • “Miss Compton plays his assistant, a featherbrained private eye.”

    My Favorite Blonde : Scrubbles.net

  • “A former fêtarde* myself and still a bit featherbrained from it I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!”

    French Word-A-Day:

  • “Here's a snapshot of the featherbrained whims that get us into this mess.”

    From On High

  • “Since most of the 15 million users of IBM's Lotus Sametime instant-messaging service work in corporate markets, they schedule interactive online meetings, attach files to present during the meeting and engage in a spot of team white boarding--but never have the featherbrained joy of sending emoticons.”

    Forbes: Palmisano's IBM To Make Sametime Work With AOL, Yahoo

  • “Unfortunately, Mr. Frey made a big mistake when he gave away the major plot points of his second memoir in a featherbrained epilogue to the first.”

    What to Do Post-Rehab? Write a Memoir, Of Course

  • “She might sound featherbrained, but the shield maiden of old was still underneath.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Sea of Trolls

  • ““Only a featherbrained girl would dream of becoming a celebrated Gothic novelist like Mrs. Radcliffe or Mary Shelley.””

    One Night Of Scandal

  • “Fearing that his contract might be terminated if Clara's mother discovered that he was miseducating two illiterate, featherbrained young women, Monsieur Roquefort presented them with Carax's novel dressed up as a love story, which was, at least, half true.”

    The Shadow of the Wind

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  • hernesheir It only took 8 consonants and 6 vowels to make the three syllables in this word. Feb 14, 2011

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