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Adjective: scatty (scattier,scattiest)  ska-tee
Usage: Brit
  1. Lacking sense or discretion
    "his scatty crackpot ideas"
    - rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained
     
  2. Lost in thought; showing preoccupation
    "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
    - absent, absentminded, abstracted

Derived forms: scattier, scattiest

See also: daft, dumb, foolish, inattentive, stupid

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