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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Word of the Day

15 May 2025

PARSIMONIOUS

(adjective) excessively unwilling to spend; “parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses”; “lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence”


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Coffee Trivia

The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.

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