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单词 scatty
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Definition of scatty in English:

scatty

adjectivescattiest, scattier ˈskatiˈskædi
British informal
  • Absent-minded and disorganized.

    〈非正式〉心不在焉的,精神不集中的

    Julia sees herself as vaguely uneducated and slightly scatty
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Slightly scatty, she is perceived as neurotic, which seems par for the course in the New York she inhabits.
    • Another advantage/disadvantage depending on how scatty you are is that an individual PC card will only work with a particular notebook.
    • I recommend a mobile phone to make her look not like a scatty old lady but a busy executive on the job.
    • As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me, a very close second to Willow to be quite honest.
    • He's always told Sadie her staff are scatty and unreliable - and now he feels he's been left looking stupid.
    • All these glimpses are to lead us towards the conclusion that these women are all incredibly powerful, yet retain a sort of scatty charm.
    • Ross did try, but he was too scatty to organise anything.
    • But despite the slightly scatty appearance and manner he had, Katie thought he looked, kind of capable.
    • A scatty young woman decides to bring her family together by cooking Thanksgiving dinner in her tiny New York apartment.
    • He might sound like a motormouth, he might sounds scatty and a little out of focus.
    • Does having a scatty heroine, rather than a gormless hero, on the case affect the parody?
    • His scatty style might seem to some carefully contrived, but through the chinks of his eccentricity something else comes through: genuine sweetness and innocence.
    • She has a kindly, slightly scatty manner and a lively twinkle in her eye.
    • They job is making sure that scatty, ill-disciplined journalists sound like they actually know what they're talking about.
    • The door was unlocked, thanks to our rather scatty tutor.
    • As for Elliot, she's as scatty as a fruit fly, the constant butt of Cox's cutting jokes.
    • We are all in our 50s, so we're not scatty teenagers.
    • Seriously scatty, it was almost as if she was oblivious to her surroundings and continued to live exactly as she had in Manhattan.
    • By this stage I should tell you about Michelle, our slightly scatty, but very likeable waitress, who had assured me that the lobster was wonderful.
    • Something of that scatty, archaic, tender quality creeps into Garnett's book, too.
    Synonyms
    foolish, stupid, unintelligent, idiotic, brainless, mindless, witless, imbecilic, imbecile, doltish

Derivatives

  • scattily

  • adverb
    British informal
    • It has an improvisatory feel rarely found in western, sit-up-straight restaurants, a scattily panicked vitality as bracing as its rough peasant dishes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Though the book lacks varnish - it's more scattily anecdotal than coherent - it's full of intimate glimpses of the sort that no biographer can reproduce.
      • The teacher taking detention was scattily looking through his own teaching folders for the list of students that should have been in attendance that afternoon.
  • scattiness

  • noun ˈskatɪnəsˈskædinəs
    British informal
    • The enlightening thing about Gidden's tract is its scattiness, historical amnesia and implicit authoritarianism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She seems very similar to me in character so it amuses me to see bits of me in her like my scattiness.
      • The Champions League holders are a joy to watch but their scattiness does find them out now and again.
      • There is a certain scattiness, as well as scruple, in the authors' methods.

Origin

Early 20th century: abbreviation of scatterbrained.

Rhymes

batty, bratty, catty, chatty, Cincinnati, Dolcelatte, fatty, flattie, Hattie, natty, patty, ratty, Satie, Scarlatti, Tati, tattie, tatty

Definition of scatty in US English:

scatty

adjectiveˈskadēˈskædi
British informal
  • Absentminded and disorganized.

    〈非正式〉心不在焉的,精神不集中的

    Julia sees herself as vaguely uneducated and slightly scatty
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All these glimpses are to lead us towards the conclusion that these women are all incredibly powerful, yet retain a sort of scatty charm.
    • I recommend a mobile phone to make her look not like a scatty old lady but a busy executive on the job.
    • Seriously scatty, it was almost as if she was oblivious to her surroundings and continued to live exactly as she had in Manhattan.
    • As for Elliot, she's as scatty as a fruit fly, the constant butt of Cox's cutting jokes.
    • She has a kindly, slightly scatty manner and a lively twinkle in her eye.
    • His scatty style might seem to some carefully contrived, but through the chinks of his eccentricity something else comes through: genuine sweetness and innocence.
    • Does having a scatty heroine, rather than a gormless hero, on the case affect the parody?
    • By this stage I should tell you about Michelle, our slightly scatty, but very likeable waitress, who had assured me that the lobster was wonderful.
    • He might sound like a motormouth, he might sounds scatty and a little out of focus.
    • He's always told Sadie her staff are scatty and unreliable - and now he feels he's been left looking stupid.
    • The door was unlocked, thanks to our rather scatty tutor.
    • Ross did try, but he was too scatty to organise anything.
    • As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me, a very close second to Willow to be quite honest.
    • A scatty young woman decides to bring her family together by cooking Thanksgiving dinner in her tiny New York apartment.
    • We are all in our 50s, so we're not scatty teenagers.
    • Something of that scatty, archaic, tender quality creeps into Garnett's book, too.
    • But despite the slightly scatty appearance and manner he had, Katie thought he looked, kind of capable.
    • Slightly scatty, she is perceived as neurotic, which seems par for the course in the New York she inhabits.
    • Another advantage/disadvantage depending on how scatty you are is that an individual PC card will only work with a particular notebook.
    • They job is making sure that scatty, ill-disciplined journalists sound like they actually know what they're talking about.
    Synonyms
    foolish, stupid, unintelligent, idiotic, brainless, mindless, witless, imbecilic, imbecile, doltish

Origin

Early 20th century: abbreviation of scatterbrained.

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