scatty

  • (s) lacking sense or discretion
    • his rattlebrained crackpot ideas
    • how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for - Glenway Westcott
    rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained,
  • (s) lost in thought; showing preoccupation
    • an absent stare
    • an absentminded professor
    • the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
    absentminded, abstracted, absent,

Synonyms

rattlebrained rattlepated scatterbrained absentminded abstracted absent

Words of close approximity

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