"Oh no! I left my umbrella on the train." "You are a scatterbrain!"
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Scatterbrain
Synonyms for "scatterbrain" (20 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
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2 entriesis a
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5 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 18 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- capsigrany noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 馬大哈 /马大哈 noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Czech
1 entries- popleta noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Dutch
2 entries- wargeest noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- warhoofd noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Finnish
3 entries- häsy noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- hösöttäjä noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- sähläri noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
French
3 entries- tête de linotte noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- étourdi noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- étourdie noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
German
2 entries- Schussel noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- Wirrkopf noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Irish
2 entries- uaill noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- éagann noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Italian
1 entries- sbadato noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Japanese
1 entries- おっちょこちょい noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Macedonian
3 entries- ве́трогон noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- забора́веник noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- заве́анко noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Māori
1 entries- hinengaro makere noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Polish
2 entries- roztrzepaniec noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- wypłosz noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Portuguese
1 entries- distraído noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Russian
4 entries- раззя́ва noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- рази́ня noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- растя́па noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- ротозе́й noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Spanish
4 entries- alocado noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- atolondrado noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- chorlito noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- pajarón noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Swedish
2 entries- tankspridd person noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- virrpanna noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Welsh
3 entries- hurten noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- hurtyn noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
- penchwiban noun (flighty, disorganized or forgetful person)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
"Damn it! I forgot my umbrella on the train." "Scatterbrain!"
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I've never seen such a scatterbrain.
Source: tatoeba (2258900)
Vivian is so VERY late! Where has that scatterbrain been all this time?
Source: wiktionary
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