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Definition of scatered

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1. scattered [ a ] occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space
Examples: "scattered showers" "scattered villages"

Used in print:

(J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)

Splenomegaly was first noted in 1956 , and a sternal marrow biopsy at that time showed `` scattered foci of fibrosis '' suggestive_of myelofibrosis .

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

Religion at its best is out in_front , ever beckoning and leading_on , and , as Lippman put it , `` mobilizing all man 's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance '' .

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out , she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful .

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

She glanced around the clearing , taking_in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground , the two kids , the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight .

Synonyms scattered Related Terms distributed

2. scattered [ a ] not close together in time
Examples: "isolated instances of rebellion" "scattered fire" "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"

Used in print:

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Over the first five frames , Jack_Fisher , the big righthander who figures to be in_the_middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American_League pennant , held the A 's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits .

Synonyms isolated stray scattered Related Terms sporadic

3. scattered [ a ] being distributed here and there without order
Examples: "scattered leaves littered the sidewalk" "don't forget to pick up the clothes lying strewn all over the floor"

Synonyms strewn scattered Related Terms distributed

4. scattered [ a ] lacking orderly continuity
Examples: "a confused set of instructions" "a confused dream about the end of the world" "disconnected fragments of a story" "scattered thoughts"

Synonyms confused garbled disordered disjointed unconnected scattered illogical disconnected Related Terms incoherent

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