SCATTERBRAINED

flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained

(adjective) guided by whim and fancy; “flighty young girls”

rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty

(adjective) lacking sense or discretion; “his rattlebrained crackpot ideas”; “how rattlepated I am! I’ve forgotten what I came for”- Glenway Westcott

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

scatterbrained (comparative more scatterbrained, superlative most scatterbrained)

Having the qualities of a scatterbrain: absent-minded, forgetful, easily distracted.

Source: Wiktionary


Scat"ter-brained`, a.

Definition: Giddy; thoughtless.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.

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