scatty

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adjective

1. lost in thought;
showing preoccupation
- an absent stare
- an absentminded professor
- the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
• Syn:
absent, absentminded, abstracted
• Similar to:
inattentive
• Derivationally related forms:
abstractedness (for: abstracted), absentmindedness (for: absentminded)
2. lacking sense or discretion
- his rattlebrained crackpot ideas
- "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott
• Syn:
rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained
• Similar to:
foolish

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  absent, absentminded, abstracted, rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained