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SCATTER-BRAIN

Definition: SCATTER-BRAIN

SCATTER-BRAIN

Noun

1. A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCATTER-BRAIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Modern Translations: SCATTER-BRAIN

Language Translations for "SCATTER-BRAIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏نزق (cranky, cross, irritable, mad, pernickety, pettiness, petulance, quick, rattle-brained, ratty, snippy, testy, tetchy, touchiness), ‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise), ‏الغافل. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

驱散脑子 (scatter-brains). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ztřeštìnec (madcap). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kelekótya ember, hebehurgya ember. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

뿌리 두뇌 (scatter-brains). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atter-brainscay

   

Russian 

  

вертопрах (featherbrain, feather-brain, featherhead, featherheaded, featherpate, featherpated, scatterbrain), легкомысленный человек (light-head, scatterbrain). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smetenjak, vetropir (popinjay), alamunja. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

virrhöna (scatterbrain). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người vô ý vô tứ người lông bông phù phiếm, người đoảng (good-for-nothing, good-for-nought, lemon, ne'er-do-well). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SCATTER-BRAIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scatterbrain.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-n-r-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: abstracter, arbitrates, carabiners, tarriances, transcribe.

-3 letters: aberrants, abstainer, arbitrate, arrestant, ascertain, attainers, bacterias, bacterins, birrettas, braincase, brattices, cabrettas, carabiner, carabines, catbriers, craniates, interacts, reactants, reattains, restraint, retirants, sectarian, tarriance, tearstain.

-4 letters: aberrant, abreacts, abstract, abstrict, acarines, antbears, antisera, arbiters, ariettas, aristate, astatine, attainer, bacteria, bacterin, banister, barniest, bartisan, bearcats, birettas, birretta, bitterns, brattice, brattier, brisance, cabarets, cabinets, cabresta, cabretta, canaries, canister, carabine, carabins, carbarns, carbines, carinate, castanet, castrate, castrati, catbrier, caterans, centrist, ceratins, cesarian, cisterna, citrates, citterns, craniate, creatins, cristate, critters, entastic, erratics, estancia, interact, intreats, narrates, nictates, nitrates, rarebits, ratanies, ratsbane, reactant, reattain, restrain, restrict, retirant, retracts, retrains, sanitate, scantier, scattier, seatrain, strainer, straiten, straiter, stricter, tabarets, tabetics, tacrines, tarriest, tartaric, teacarts, terrains, tertians, tetanics, trainers, transact, transect.

-5 letters: abaters, abattis, abreact, abreast, abstain, acarine, acetins, acrasin, anestri, antbear, antiars, anticar, antsier, arbiter, arcsine, arietta, aristae, arnicas, arsenic, artiest, artisan, artiste, artsier, ascribe, astatic, asteria, astrict, atresia, attains, attires, baiters, banters, banties, barites, barnier, barrens, barrets, barters, basinet, batiste, battens, batters, battier, bearcat, biretta, bistate, bittern, bitters, bracers, brasier, briners, brisant, cabaret, cabinet, canters, carabin, carates, carbarn, carbine, caribes, carinae, carinas, caritas, carnets, carnies, carries, carters, catenas, cateran, cattier, catties, ceratin, certain, cineast, cirrate, cistern, citrate, cittern, craters, creatin, cretins, cristae, critter, entasia, errants, erratas, erratic, instate, intreat, iratest, iterant, narcist, narrate, nastier, natters, nattier, nectars, nictate, nitrate, raciest, ranters, rarebit, ratines, ratites, rattans, rattens, ratters, rattier, rebaits, recants, restart, retains, retinas, retints, retract, retrain, retsina, ritters, satanic, satiate, satinet, scanter, scarier, scatter, scriber, sierran, stainer, starter, statice, stearic, stearin, stinter, striate, tabaret, tabetic, tacrine, taenias, tanrecs, tantras, tantric, tarries, tarsier, tartans, tartars, tastier, teacart, terbias, terrain, territs, tertian, tetanic, tinters, tracers, trainer, trances, transit, trisect, tsarina.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-n-r-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: scatterbrains.

 

+2 letters: scatterbrained.

 

+3 letters: overabstracting.

 

+5 letters: intercalibrations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SCATTER-BRAIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 41 54 54 45 52 2D 42 52 41 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01000001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101101 01000010 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#45 &#66 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0041 0054 0054 0045 0052 002D 0042 0052 0041 0049 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53373554543952153652354348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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