adjective
- Lacking sense or discretion."his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for- Glenway Westcott
- synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained
- Lost in thought; showing preoccupation.
- usage: "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
- synonyms: absent, absentminded, abstracted
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
| APA | WordNet. (2010). scatty. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/scatty/definitions/1182880 |
| Chicago | WordNet. 2010. "scatty" http://smartdefine.org/scatty/definitions/1182880 (accessed September 21, 2026). |
| Harvard | WordNet 2010, scatty, Smart Define, viewed 21 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/scatty/definitions/1182880>. |
| MLA | WordNet. "scatty" 23 October 2010. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/scatty/definitions/1182880> |