scatty

1. 1.

   lacking sense or discretion

   “his rattlebrained crackpot ideas”

   “how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for”

   Synonymsrattlebrainedrattlepatedscatterbrained

   Similarfoolish
2. 2.

   lost in thought; showing preoccupation

   “an absent stare”

   “an absentminded professor”

   “the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence”

   Synonymsabsentabsentmindedabstracted

   Similarinattentive

Other forms of scatty

comparative

scattier·

superlative

scattiest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scatty

What does scatty mean?

scatty means "lacking sense or discretion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scatty?

scatty has 2 syllables: scat-ty. The stress falls on "scat".

What is another word for scatty?

Close synonyms include rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, absent, absentminded. 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 scatty a common word?

scatty 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.