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Textual thesaurus for "scatty"

(adj) absent, absentminded, abstracted

lost in thought; showing preoccupation

an absent stare; an absentminded professor; the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence


(adj) scatterbrained, rattlebrained, rattlepated

lacking sense or discretion

his rattlebrained crackpot ideas; how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for- Glenway Westcott