featherbrained

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for featherbrained
Adjective
  • Just a lot of good places to take goofy selfies and places for the kids to run around.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
  • At first, Star Wars was a goofy space opera, entertaining and box office gold, but only really taken seriously by nerds.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • There were no costumes, no silly dances or hit parodies.
    Courtney Devores, Charlotte Observer, 28 July 2025
  • That may sound silly to some, Foster said, but the work done by the Environmental Protection Agency in placing bands on birds and following the migration of bees informs officials about the impact of projects on the environment.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2025
Adjective
  • The game was a lot like that scene, a giddy kaleidoscope of touchdowns and fun.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 16 July 2025
  • The broad market rode a giddy melt-up in mega-cap tech right into the second week of July 2024 before at first a radical internal rotation and then a broader pullback generated the only serious setback of that year.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Go with the flow, but not toward the beach: Trying to swim directly toward the beach when caught in a rip current is futile and exhausting.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2025
  • This group saw military responses as futile, as Iran was assumed to have escalation dominance.
    JAMES JEFFREY, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2025
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“Featherbrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/featherbrained. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.

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