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Feather-brained   Listen
adjective
feather-brained, featherbrained  adj.  Giddy; frivolous; lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; feather-headed. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, lightheaded, light-headed, silly.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Feather-brained" Quotes from Famous Books



... one of your feather-brained, lily-livered fellows, is he? So much the better for my purpose. Look you here, Tom; bring Vane to-morrow evening to Spring Gardens, and there's ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

... suppose that it's only young men that can love?... There are some older men, whose hearts are warmer... and when once an old man does take a fancy to any one, well—he's simply like a rock! It's for ever! Not like these beardless, feather-brained young fools! Yes, yes; you mustn't look down on old men! They can do so much! You've only to take them the right way! Yes... yes! And as for kissing, old men know all about that too, he-he-he...' Semyon Matveitch ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev



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