Usually means: Disorganized in thoughts and actions.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word scatterbrain:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. scatterbrain: Merriam-Webster
  2. scatterbrain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scatterbrain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scatterbrain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scatterbrain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scatterbrain, scatterbrain: Wordnik
  7. scatterbrain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scatterbrain: Wiktionary
  9. scatterbrain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scatterbrain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scatterbrain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scatterbrain: Dictionary.com
  13. Scatterbrain (KXM album), Scatterbrain (Morituri), Scatterbrain (band), Scatterbrain (film), Scatterbrain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. scatterbrain: Rhymezone
  15. scatterbrain: FreeDictionary.org
  16. scatterbrain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. scatterbrain: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scatterbrain: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.

Similar:
forgetful person, harebrain, spacer, rattlebrain, der-brain, jellybrain, madbrain, jingle-brains, bubble brain, birdbrain, more...

Opposite:
focused, concentrated, attentive, engrossed

Types:
forgetful, absent-minded, disorganized, distracted, flighty, unfocused, scatterbrained, spacey, more...

Adjectives:
such, little, young, great, sad, disorganized, old, irresponsible, whimsical, headed, tempered

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Similar:
forgetful person, harebrain, spacer, rattlebrain, der-brain, jellybrain, madbrain, jingle-brains, bubble brain, birdbrain, more...

Opposite:
focused, concentrated, attentive, engrossed

Types:
forgetful, absent-minded, disorganized, distracted, flighty, unfocused, scatterbrained, spacey, more...

Adjectives:
such, little, young, great, sad, disorganized, old, irresponsible, whimsical, headed, tempered



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