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| 1. | [ adjective ] occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space | |
| Examples: | "scattered showers" "scattered villages" |
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| Related terms: | distributed | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] not close together in time | |
| Synonyms: | isolated stray | |
| Examples: | "isolated instances of rebellion" "scattered fire" "a stray bullet grazed his thigh" |
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| Related terms: | sporadic | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] being distributed here and there without order | |
| Synonyms: | strewn | |
| Examples: | "scattered leaves littered the sidewalk" "don't forget to pick up the clothes lying strewn all over the floor" |
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| Related terms: | distributed | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] lacking orderly continuity | |
| Synonyms: | confused disordered disjointed garbled illogical unconnected disconnected | |
| Examples: | "a confused set of instructions" "a confused dream about the end of the world" "disconnected fragments of a story" "scattered thoughts" |
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| Related terms: | incoherent | |
| Similar spelling: |
scatter Schutter scattergood scoter scattering scattergun scouter scooter scattershot scatter_rug scatter_pin scatterbrain |
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