EGAVE

scatty

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Scatterbrained; flighty.
  2. adjective Messy; filthy; disgusting.
  3. noun A fish of species Scatophagus tetracanthus.
  4. adjective Showery; rainy.

Similar words

rattlepated rattlebrained scatterbrained foolish absentminded inattentive absent abstracted harebrained scatter-brained

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Word family

scattier scattiest

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