SCATTER-BRAINED

Definition: SCATTER-BRAINED

SCATTER-BRAINED

Adjective

1. Giddy; thoughtless.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCATTER-BRAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Inattention

Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).

Arabic 

‏غير مركز (watery, wayward), ‏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-brain, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise), ‏أحمق التصرف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разсеян (absent, absent minded, diffuse, disseminated, distrait, forgetful, moony, oblivious, preoccupied, rare, stray, unmindful, vacant, wandering, wool gathering), вятърничав (flighty, flyaway, harebrained, skittish), лекомислен (airy, airy fairy, dizzy, empty headed, fast, featherbrained, flip, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, harum scarum, idle, inconstant, light, light minded, light-headed, superficial, trivial, unreflecting, unthinking). (various references)

Czech

zmatkař, pomatený (deranged, distempered, haywire, moonstruck, moony, out of one's mind, paranoid, perplexed, unbalanced). (various references)

French

hurluberlu (scatty, screwball), étourdi (harum scarum, scatterbrain, scatty). (various references)

Greek 

φυρόμυαλος (empty-headed). (various references)

Hungarian

hebehurgya (blundering, flighty, giddy, giddy-pated, half cocked, harum-scarum, inconsiderate, precipitous). (various references)

Manx

ommidjagh (absurd, brainless, crackpot, fatuous, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, madcap, nonsensical, silly). (various references)

Pig Latin

atter-brainedscay.(various references)

Russian 

легкомысленный (empty headed, empty-headed, fast, flighty, flippant, frivolous, harum scarum, light, light minded, lightheaded, light-headed, light-minded, rakish, slap-happy, unreflecting, unthinking). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vetropiran. (various references)

Swedish

virrig (confused, desultory, dizzy, featherbrained, featherheaded, featherpated, helter-skelter, indiscriminate, jumbly, muddled, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, rambling, scatty, screwed up), tanklös (blithe, brash, harebrained, harum scarum, heedless, improvident, inattentive, insensible, light, light-headed, scatty, thoughtless, unguarded, unthinking). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô ý vô tứ lông bông phù phiếm, đoảng (ne'er-do-well). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scatterbrained.

-2 letters: scatterbrain.

-3 letters: aberrancies, ascertained, brainteaser, carabineers, deracinates, secretariat, tearstained, tetracaines, transcribed.

-4 letters: aberrances, abstracted, abstracter, abstricted, antitrades, arbitrated, arbitrates, asteriated, attainders, banistered, barricades, bartenders, carabineer, carabiners, catenaries, certainest, deracinate, discarnate, eradicates, interacted, intercaste, irredentas, reattained, reinstated, reradiates, restrained, restricted, retardants, retardates, straitened, tarriances, tetracaine, transacted, transcribe, transected.

-5 letters: abdicates, aberrance, aberrants, aberrated, abidances, abreacted.