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Definition of Featherbrained
1. Adjective. Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity. "Silly giggles"
Similar to: Frivolous
Derivative terms: Giddiness, Lightheadedness, Silliness
Definition of Featherbrained
1. a. Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
Definition of Featherbrained
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of feather-brained) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Featherbrained
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Featherbrained
Literary usage of Featherbrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... because only light and featherbrained men would rush heedlessly on a difficult
enterprise, because the resolution that is expected from him is one that ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"Even the featherbrained among them realize clearly now that he is a factor in
their nn- Uon.il life with which they will henceforth have to reckon. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"Though his generous patron, too cultured, too gentle, and perhaps too featherbrained
for the grim crisis he had to meet, failed, and was murdered by his ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"... "featherbrained adventurer." For " charlatan " and " feather - brained
adventurer" are the characters in which it pleases Lord ..."
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