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Princeton's WordNet
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, disconnectedAntonyms:
consistent, ordered, concentrated, coherent, logicalconfused, 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, confusedAntonyms:
ordered, coherent, logical, concentrated, consistent
Dictionary of English Synonymes
scatteredadjective
scatteredadjective
Synonyms:
diffused, dispersed, spread aboutscatteredadjective
Synonyms:
sporadic, occurring here and there
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "scattered":
dispersed, sparse, sporadic, spread, disseminated, distributed, fragmented, decentralized, patchy, odd-job, piecemeal, littered, dispersal, diffuse
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1079 | lost | |
#2535 | broken | |
#2819 | distributed | |
#3125 | spread | |
#3684 | split | |
#6287 | separated | |
#6878 | confused | |
#9423 | upset | |
#10224 | scattered | |
#18891 | disconnected | |
#19025 | sparse | |
#19568 | diffuse | |
#19599 | dispersed | |
#22917 | fragmented | |
#23292 | disseminated | |
#26348 | decentralized | |
#27559 | abrupt | |
#27660 | sporadic | |
#28460 | dispersal | |
#29606 | illogical | |
#34500 | disordered | |
#36031 | patchy | |
#38053 | baffled | |
#38810 | littered | |
#41565 | bewildered | |
#46290 | dislocated | |
#49426 | confounded | |
#52254 | piecemeal | |
#52578 | unconnected | |
#56218 | unordered | |
#56811 | disjointed | |
#60461 | garbled | |
#66194 | disoriented | |
#67723 | staccato | |
#69737 | bemused | |
#95677 | befuddled | |
#247581 | disunited |
How to use scattered in a sentence?
Democratic Leader Berta Gardner:
Because Alaska is a very high cost area and we have a small scattered population, insurance companies are not eager to do business here, costs are high and there are relatively few people. For instance there is no rheumatologist in the entire state.
There were pieces of Malcolm X's story scattered across the country and we were trying to find them, they were privately owned, never made available to the public. I mean people had papers and recordings in their garages.
What the results revealed here is that it's not necessarily an issue related to a specific country or region, but that it's really a global issue, when we see where the 10 sites that have become carbon sources are, they are scattered all around the world, so the takeaway of the findings is that climate action is needed at a global level.
The debris is scattered about over several miles, it's going to take some time to verify. The items would appear to be consistent with the missing ship.
The street [was] full of smashed glass, candles knocked over, the signs were ripped off, flowers were scattered over the sidewalk.
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