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Definition: SCATTER-BRAIN |
SCATTER-BRAINNoun1. A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. |
Date "SCATTER-BRAIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
| 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 вертопрах (featherbrain, feather-brain, featherhead, featherheaded, featherpate, featherpated, scatterbrain), легкомысленный человек (light-head, scatterbrain). (various references) smetenjak, vetropir (popinjay), alamunja. (various references) virrhöna (scatterbrain). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01000001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101101 01000010 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C A T T E R - B R A I N |
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 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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