Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person regarded as flighty, thoughtless, or disorganized.
Wiktionary
- n. A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
Etymologies
- scatter + brain (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He continually strives to be a better one of all of these, though how to be a better scatterbrain is currently eluding him.”
“A writer, a father, a math teacher, a really big nerd, a husband, a scatterbrain, a dreamer, a collector of stuffed penguins, a rambler.”
“Andrew Strauss – from scatterbrain to a very English hero”
“Andrew Strauss: from scatterbrain to a very English hero | Andy Wilson”
The Guardian: Andrew Strauss: from scatterbrain to a very English hero | Andy Wilson
“But that doesn't make him nonsensical or a scatterbrain.”
The Wall Street Journal: Sunday May Determine Schottenheimer's Fate
“I thought she was a ditz before this debacle and I still think she is a scatterbrain and unfit for public office.”
“It's priceless how often the scatterbrain who jumped the boards when he wasn't supposed to gets chosen (in yell form) to go sit the two minutes.”
There are too many reasons why too many men on ice calls occur
“Please stop underrating your viewing audience by forcing this ignorant scatterbrain on us.”
“Baseball doesn't beg desperately for your attention like other sports do it doesn't treat you like a stimulation-craving scatterbrain who needs a T-shirt shot-gunned at your face between pitches (they just do that, uh, between innings).”
“By the time we were presented at Balmoral, though, the next day, she was high up the scale again, and the fact that we shared the waiting-room beforehand with some lord or other and his beak-nosed lady, who looked at us as though we were riff-raff, reduced my poor little scatterbrain to quaking terror.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scatterbrain’.
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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words-for-apocalipstick
all your words are belong to me.
sybaritic, cacography, scatterbrain, extravaganza, fenestra, kaleidophone, machination, mudpuppy, saturnalia, Bacchanalia, ersatz, fictile and 58 more...
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EN-HU - fun and challenge to translate
Highly descriptive coinages (either in EN or HU) which are difficult to translate between the two languages. If - as a simultaneous interpreter - you get them right on the move, you deserve to be p...
backpfeifengesicht, a wise head on yo..., bad hair day, big cheese, blame shift, cherry picking, intellectual heav..., lack nunchi, schlimazl, cash cow, cherry boy, ass munch and 65 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Odd-Ball
Just plain fun to say and wonder about their origins.
rapscallion, ramahanukwanzmas, cockamamie, nincompoop, hemidemisemiquaver, antiinterdenomina..., cattywampus, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, blunderbuss, brobdingnagian, tintinnabulation and 127 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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Derogative words
This list include words to insult people in an argument. Does not include words that are profanity.
moron, imbecile, harlot, schlump, nincompoop, simpleton, ignoramous, idiot, dolt, blockhead, dunderhead, numbskull and 32 more...
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incidentist's Words
floss, obstrobogulous, spice weasel, pith, invective, scruples, cabbage, awkward, nubbin, scoff, bazooka, orgulous and 5 more...
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I'm Surrounded by Idiots
Ways to say someone is stupid, inept, etc. (nouns)
idiot, moron, ignoramus, dummy, dumbass, stupid, bonehead, meathead, featherbrain, scatterbrain, dumb, twit and 60 more...
Tweets
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mollusque No, but ecstasy does. Dec 4, 2007
oroboros Does shebang cause "scatterbrain"? Jan 4, 2007