scatterbrained

English

Etymology

From scatter +‎ brained.

Adjective

scatterbrained (comparative more scatterbrained, superlative most scatterbrained)

1. Having the qualities of a scatterbrain: absent-minded, forgetful, easily distracted.

Related terms

• go haywire

Translations

having the qualities of scatterbrain

• Bulgarian: вятърничав (bg) (vjatǎrničav), лекомислен (bg) (lekomislen)
• Czech: lehkomyslný (cs)
• Esperanto: ventanima
• Finnish: hajamielinen (fi)
• French: écervelé (fr)
• German: nachlässig (de), vergesslich (de)
• Japanese: おっちょこちょい (ja) (otchokochoi)
• Macedonian: леко́мислен (lekómislen), вете́ринчав (vetérinčav)
• Norman: êcoquevilyi
• Persian: کالیو (fa) (kâliv)
• Polish: roztrzepany (pl)
• Russian: легкомы́сленный (ru) (lexkomýslennyj)
• Swedish: tankspridd (sv), virrig (sv), tanklös (sv)
• Turkish: ebleh (tr), alık (tr), bön (tr)

absent-minded — see absent-minded