scatty
1. lost in thought; showing preoccupation - an absent stare - an absentminded professor - the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence • Syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted • Similar to: inattentive • Derivationally related forms: abstractedness (for: abstracted), absentmindedness (for: absentminded) 2. lacking sense or discretion - his rattlebrained crackpot ideas - "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott • Syn: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained • Similar to: foolish
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