Meanings
nounscatterbrain (plural scatterbrains)
plural scatterbrains
- A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
Vivian is so VERY late! Where has that scatterbrain been all this time?
2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Twilight Town
Synonyms & antonyms
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan capsigrany
- capsigranyflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Chinese Mandarin 馬大哈 /马大哈, 恍恍
- 馬大哈 /马大哈 (mǎdàhā)flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- 恍恍 (huang³ huang³)flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Czech popleta
- popletaflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Dutch warhoofd, wargeest
- warhoofdflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- wargeestflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Finnish sähläri, hösöttäjä
- sähläriflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- hösöttäjäflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- häsyflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
French tête de linotte, étourdi
- tête de linotteflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- étourdiflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- étourdieflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
German Wirrkopf, Schussel
- Wirrkopfflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- Schusselflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Irish éagann, uaill
- éagannflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- uaillflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Italian sbadato
- sbadatoflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Japanese おっちょこちょい
- おっちょこちょい (otchokochoi)flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Māori hinengaro makere
- hinengaro makereflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Polish roztrzepaniec, wypłosz
- roztrzepaniecflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- wypłoszflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Portuguese distraído
- distraídoflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Russian рази́ня, растя́па
- рази́ня (razínja)flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- растя́па (rastjápa)flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- раззя́ва (razzjáva)flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- ротозе́й (rotozéj)flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- ротозе́йка (rotozéjka)flighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Spanish chorlito, alocado
- chorlitoflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- alocadoflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- atolondradoflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- pajarónflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Swedish virrpanna, tankspridd person
- virrpannaflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- tankspridd personflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Welsh penchwiban, hurtyn
- penchwibanflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- hurtynflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
- hurtenflighty, disorganized or forgetful person
Cite this entry
APA
scatterbrain. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scatterbrain
MLA
“scatterbrain.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scatterbrain. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scatterbrain,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scatterbrain.
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