Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a weak, empty brain; light-headed; frivolous; giddy. Also feather-headed, feather-pated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Giddy; frivolous; lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; feather-headed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
feather-brained .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
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Examples
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And for one brief moment, all its featherbrained feline attention was devoted to keeping its balance.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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A former fêtarde* myself (and still a bit featherbrained from it) I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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A former fêtarde* myself (and still a bit featherbrained from it) I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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A former fêtarde* myself (and still a bit featherbrained from it) I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!
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Miss Compton plays his assistant, a featherbrained private eye.
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Miss Compton plays his assistant, a featherbrained private eye.
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A former fêtarde* myself and still a bit featherbrained from it I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!
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Here's a snapshot of the featherbrained whims that get us into this mess.
From On High 2007
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A former fêtarde* myself and still a bit featherbrained from it I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Since most of the 15 million users of IBM's Lotus Sametime instant-messaging service work in corporate markets, they schedule interactive online meetings, attach files to present during the meeting and engage in a spot of team white boarding--but never have the featherbrained joy of sending emoticons.
hernesheir commented on the word featherbrained
It only took 8 consonants and 6 vowels to make the three syllables in this word.
February 14, 2011