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scatterbrain

scatterbrain noun: a flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.

Noun

scatterbrain (plural scatterbrains)

  1. A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
    • Vivian is so VERY late! Where has that scatterbrain been all this time?2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Twilight Town

scatterbrain meaning in Tamil and Kannada

scatterbrain in Tamil

அக்கறையிலி

scatterbrain in Kannada

ಏಕಾಗ್ರತೆ ಇಲ್ಲದವ, ಭ್ರಮೆ ಹಿಡಿದವ, ಗಮನಗೇಡಿ, ಹುಚ್ಚ

Forms of scatterbrain

pluralscatterbrains

Origin of scatterbrain

From scatter + brain.

Questions about scatterbrain

What does scatterbrain mean?
Scatterbrain means a flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
What is scatterbrain in Tamil?
Scatterbrain in Tamil is அக்கறையிலி. See Scatterbrain meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scatterbrain?
Scatterbrain is a noun.
What is the plural of scatterbrain?
The plural of scatterbrain is scatterbrains.

Words near scatterbrain in the dictionary

  1. scatter-story
  2. scatter/gather
  3. scatterable
  4. scatteration
  5. scatterations
  6. scatterbrain
  7. scatterbrained
  8. scatterbrainedness
  9. scatterbrains
  10. scattered
  11. scattered disc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scatterbrain (page history and authors); scatterbrain (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scatterbrain (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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