noun
Meaning 1
A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scatterbrain
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noun
Meaning 2
a flighty and disorganized person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: forgetful person
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: simpleton, simple
History
Etymology
From scatter + brain.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: capsigrany — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Chinese Mandarin: 馬大哈 /马大哈 (mǎdàhā) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Czech: popleta — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Dutch: warhoofd — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Dutch: wargeest — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Finnish: sähläri — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Finnish: hösöttäjä — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Finnish: häsy — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- French: tête de linotte — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- French: étourdi — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- French: étourdie — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- German: Wirrkopf — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- German: Schussel — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Irish: éagann — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Irish: uaill — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Italian: sbadato — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Japanese: おっちょこちょい (otchokochoi) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Macedonian: заве́анко (zavéanko) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Macedonian: ве́трогон (vétrogon) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Macedonian: забора́веник (zaborávenik) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Māori: hinengaro makere — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Polish: roztrzepaniec — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Polish: wypłosz — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Portuguese: distraído — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Russian: рази́ня (razínja) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Russian: растя́па (rastjápa) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Russian: раззя́ва (razzjáva) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Russian: ротозе́й (rotozéj) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Russian: ротозе́йка (rotozéjka) — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Spanish: chorlito — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Spanish: alocado — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Spanish: atolondrado — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Spanish: pajarón — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Swedish: virrpanna — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Swedish: tankspridd person — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Welsh: penchwiban — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Welsh: hurtyn — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Welsh: hurten — flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
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