English adjective: scatty | |||
| 1. | scatty lacking sense or discretion | ||
| Samples | His rattlebrained crackpot ideas. How rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for. | ||
| Synonyms | rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained | ||
| Similar | foolish | ||
| Antonyms | wise | ||
| 2. | scatty lost in thought; showing preoccupation | ||
| Samples | An absent stare. An absentminded professor. The scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence. | ||
| Synonyms | absent, absentminded, abstracted | ||
| Similar | inattentive | ||
| Antonyms | attentive | ||