forgetful person

1. 1.

   a flighty and disorganized person

   Synonymsscatterbrain

   Broadersimpleton

Questions about forgetful person

What does forgetful person mean?

forgetful person means "a flighty and disorganized person".

What is another word for forgetful person?

Close synonyms include scatterbrain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forgetful person a common word?

forgetful person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.