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
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
A weeding-out takes place in my crowd of scatterbrains.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
My young scatterbrains find it hard to understand that the beast which was so precious two days ago is now of no value whatever.
From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
