Scatterbrain
Learning English Conversations
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Learn about this word that describes someone disorganised or forgetful.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Rob. Do you know someone who is disorganized or forgetful? We have a word to describe them. It's scatterbrain. |
| 0:11.0 | Scatterbrain. It's a word that paints a picture of someone's brain full of |
| 0:16.0 | information that spread randomly within it. It's scattered and is organized. |
| 0:21.0 | Scatterbrain is sometimes used jokingly with people you know. |
| 0:25.3 | So if you have a friend who always loses things or forgets things, you can call them a |
| 0:31.6 | scatterbrain. That's the noun. The adjective is scatterbrained. |
| 0:36.0 | My roommate is scatterbrained. She locked herself out of her house yesterday because she left her keys at home. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, I do that all the time. |
| 0:46.0 | Luckily my neighbour has a spare key. |
| 0:48.0 | So you are a scatterbrain too. |
| 0:50.0 | Let's hear about some more scatter brains in these examples. |
| 0:54.0 | She forgot my birthday again. |
| 1:00.0 | She's such a scatterbrain. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, I'm such a scatterbrain. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, I'm such a scatterbrain. |
| 1:06.0 | I know I put the tickets somewhere safe, |
| 1:08.0 | and now I can't remember where they are. |
| 1:11.0 | He's so scatterbrained. He can't remember where he left his wallet. |
| 1:17.0 | This is the English we speak and we're looking at the word scatterbrain. |
| 1:25.0 | It describes someone who is forgetful, disorganized or who doesn't think clearly. |
| 1:30.0 | Similar words include birdbrain, empty-headed or ditzy. But I like |
| 1:35.9 | scatterbrain because of its almost literal meaning. And let's be honest, a |
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