| Pronunciation: | | sk'aturd
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- [adj] lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
- [adj] occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"
- [adj] being distributed here and there without order; "scattered leaves littered the sidewalk"; "don't forget to pick up the clothes lying strewn all over the floor"
- [adj] not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"
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| | Synonyms: | | confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, distributed, garbled, illogical, incoherent, isolated, sporadic, stray, strewn, unconnected |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Scat"tered\, a.
1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
2. (Bot.) Irregular in position; having no regular order; as,
scattered leaves. -- {Scat"tered*ly}, adv. --
{Scat"tered*ness}, n.
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