scatty meaning

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scatty (adjective): lacking sense or discretion.

scatty has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

scatty as an adjective

  1. lacking sense or discretion
    • his rattlebrained crackpot ideas
    • how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for

    Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained

    Similar: foolish

  2. lost in thought; showing preoccupation
    • an absent stare
    • an absentminded professor
    • the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence

    Synonyms: absent, absentminded, abstracted

    Similar: inattentive

Scrabble score: 11 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with SC · words ending in TY · 6-letter words

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