scatterbrain
noun
a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
scatterbrains
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a variation of
scatterbrain.
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pluralof scatterbrain.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
scatterbrainnouna person incapable of serious, connected thought.
Example Sentences
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Pick something for the Surge to focus on, you scatterbrains.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
"Is it not extraordinary, in a country like ours, educated, prosperous, and fairly happy, that doctrines of this kind should be taught by learned men as well as scatterbrains?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The mind that is fed upon a diet of morning and evening newspapers, mainly or solely, will become flabby, uncertain, illogical, frivolous, and, in fact, little better than a scatterbrains.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Ainsworth Rand Spofford
Come with me, or traipse back with that scatterbrains.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
It was by my contrivance, incorrigible scatterbrains, that Anselmo undertook this desirable purchase; she should have been placed into my own hands, but your cursed officiousness knocks everything on the head again.
From The Blunderer by Molière
