scatterbrain

as in ditz
a silly flighty person don't be such a scatterbrain—it's only a wedding, not the invasion of Normandy

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Noun
  • Rather than stay pigeonholed as a ditz, Simpson (who just released new music for the first time in 15 years) went on to launch her own fashion brand, which hit $1 billion in sales in 2015 and is still going strong today.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Besides offering a cash prize of up to $250,000, the show can help change perception of a villain or a ditz and be a springboard for their next casting.
    Shivani Gonzalez, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • President Trump has repeatedly called Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell stupid, terrible, a fool, and referred to him as a person of average mentality.
    Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • That fool’s from my family’s hometown over there in Mexico.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Winnie, on the other hand, is a flibbertigibbet of stream-of-consciousness.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • Duvall is a big reason why: All the film’s insights into the slipperiness of identity are there in her casually virtuosic, veritable dual performance, in which a funny flibbertigibbet loses hold of herself as the world around seems to splinter into something frighteningly new.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024
Noun
  • It was shot in portrait because it was shot in Instagram by and for a woman who was losing her mind in quarantine and had fully let the sillies take the wheel.
    Ego Nwodim, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Some more sillies from last night’s GRAMMY nominees reception.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Our friends came over to hang out and the goose attacked.
    Harpers Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • The goose wore a harness and leash with a small purple bow tie on the front.
    Molly Gibbs, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Not everyone is feeling so cuckoo about cocoa these days.
    Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
  • It’s suggested to Lynskey that the difference is that Misty’s brand is cuckoo, while Shauna is effectively the eyes and the ears of the viewer.
    Todd Longwell, Variety, 2 June 2025
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“Scatterbrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scatterbrain. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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