Usually means: Lacking seriousness; frivolous and scatterbrained.
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  1. featherbrained: Merriam-Webster
  2. featherbrained: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. featherbrained: Vocabulary.com
  4. featherbrained: Wordnik
  5. featherbrained: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. featherbrained: Wiktionary
  7. featherbrained: Dictionary.com
  8. featherbrained: Rhymezone
  9. featherbrained: FreeDictionary.org
  10. featherbrained: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. featherbrained: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. featherbrained: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of feather-brained [Foolish, scatterbrained.]

Similar:
airheaded, empty-headed, silly, light-headed, frivolous, giddy, dizzy, bird-brained, pea-brain, scatter-brained, more...

Opposite:
serious, intelligent, wise, sensible, astute

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Similar:
airheaded, empty-headed, silly, light-headed, frivolous, giddy, dizzy, bird-brained, pea-brain, scatter-brained, more...

Opposite:
serious, intelligent, wise, sensible, astute



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