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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?
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
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.
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.
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.
The debris field is scattered throughout, and it’s compact, extremely compact.
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