wanderyadj.
/ˈwɒndəri/ Wandering in thought or speech; vague, distant, ‘scatty’.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective]
idlec825
giddyc1000
volage?a1366
apec1370
foolisha1382
vain1390
idleful1483
volageous1487
glaikit1488
cock-brained1530
apish1532
empty1550
sillyc1555
frivolous?1563
tickle-headed1583
light-braineda1593
frothy1593
owlish1596
bird-witted1605
empty-headed1614
idle-headed1614
empty-pateda1628
marmosetical1630
grollish1637
feather-headed1647
nonsense1647
whirl-crowned1648
feather-brained1649
swimmering1650
soft-pated1651
weather-headeda1652
shuttlecock1660
drum-headed1664
chicken-brained1678
halokit1724
desipient1727
shatter-pated1727
scattered-brained1747
light-thoughted1777
scatter-brained1804
shandy-pated1806
hellicat1815
feather-pated1819
inane1819
weather-brained1826
bubble-headed1827
tomfoolish1838
bird-brained1892
tottle1894
fluffy1898
scatty1911
wandery1912
scattery1924
twitterpated1943
1912 R. Brooke Let. Feb. (1968) 357 I was being frightfully dim and wandery and solilocutory.
1953 W. de la Mare Private View p. xi This vanished creature..was not only more assured, less wandery, more securely based, and more confident.
1976 P. Dickinson King & Joker x. 134 She seemed so tired and wandery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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