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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. scatteredadjective

    occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space

    "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"

    Synonyms:
    unconnected, illogical, disordered, disjointed, garbled, confused, disconnected

    Antonyms:
    consistent, ordered, concentrated, coherent, logical

  2. confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnectedadjective

    lacking orderly continuity

    "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"

    Synonyms:
    abrupt, befuddled, staccato, mixed-up, disoriented, disordered, bemused, separated, at sea, fragmented, illogical, lost, disconnected, unconnected, unordered, baffled, unlogical, upset, confounded, broken, disjointed, split, dislocated, disunited, garbled, mazed, bewildered, confused

    Antonyms:
    ordered, coherent, logical, concentrated, consistent

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. scatteredadjective

    Synonyms:
    strewn, sprinkled

  2. scatteredadjective

    Synonyms:
    diffused, dispersed, spread about

  3. scatteredadjective

    Synonyms:
    sporadic, occurring here and there

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How to use scattered in a sentence?

  1. George Carlin:

    Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

  2. Antranik Sefilian:

    If you remove planet nine from the model and instead allow for lots of small objects scattered across a wide area, collective attractions between those objects could just as easily account for the eccentric orbits we see in some TNOs.

  3. David Saeed:

    We were just singing and suddenly in a blink of (an) eye, smoke, fire everywhere. I didn't realize what's happening until I saw blood and organs of our friends scattered over the ground.

  4. Mohan Krishna Sapkota:

    The trekkers are scattered all around the base camp and some had even trekked further up, it is almost impossible to get in touch with anyone.

  5. Alan Cominsky:

    The debris field is scattered throughout, and it’s compact, extremely compact.


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