[
UK
/skˈæti/
]
ADJECTIVE
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lost in thought; showing preoccupation
the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
an absentminded professor
an absent stare -
lacking sense or discretion
his rattlebrained crackpot ideas
how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for
How To Use scatty In A Sentence
- He might sound like a motormouth, he might sounds scatty and a little out of focus.
- Those two are quite capable of knocking a million books when they play scatty cats round the house. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
- But despite the slightly scatty appearance and manner he had, Katie thought he looked, kind of capable.
- the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
- She was a scatty woman with flyaway wisps of carroty hair.
- Ross did try, but he was too scatty to organise anything.
- Janet turned up fashionably late and scatty as usual, almost leaving one of her troupe of children in the back of the cab. Court Out « A Fly in Amber
- Something of that scatty, archaic, tender quality creeps into Garnett's book, too.
- Women better at finding the car keys than their scatty spouses.
- The door was unlocked, thanks to our rather scatty tutor.
