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scattered
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective scattered has 2 senses
- scattered(s = adj.all) Array - occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"
- scattered(s = adj.all) confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected - lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
CIDE DICTIONARY
scattered, a.
- Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread. [1913 Webster]
- Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
scattered
alienated, all up with, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, balled up, beat, beaten, bested, bollixed up, broadcast, chaotic, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, confounded, confused, defeated, deflected, deflective, detached, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disarticulated, discomfited, disconnected, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissipated, distorted, distributed, disunited, divided, divorced, done for, done in, down, estranged, exiguous, fallen, fixed, flectional, flexed, floored, fouled up, galley-west, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hors de combat, hugger-mugger, in a mess, inflective, infrequent, isolated, jumbled, lambasted, lathered, licked, meager, miserly, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, niggardly, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, piddling, poor, put to rout, rare, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, removed, routed, ruined, scant, scanty, scarce, screwed up, scrimping, scrimpy, segregated, seldom met with, seldom seen, separated, sequestered, settled, shut off, silenced, skew, skewed, skimble-skamble, skimping, skimpy, skinned, skinned alive, slim, snafu, sparse, sporadic, spotty, spread, sprinkled, stampeded, stingy, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, thin, tight, topsy-turvy, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, upside-down, whelmed, whipped, widespread, worstedROGET THESAURUS
scattered
Fewness
N fewness, paucity, small number, small quantity, rarity, infrequency, handful, maniple, minority, exiguity, reduction, weeding, elimination, sarculation, decimation, eradication, few, scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated, rarely, here and there.
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