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 | ||