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Scattered

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Adjective

1. scattered

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

Example Sentences:
'scattered showers'
'scattered villages'

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

lacking orderly continuity

Example Sentences:
'a confused set of instructions'
'a confused dream about the end of the world'
'disconnected fragments of a story'
'scattered thoughts'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scattered

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adjective
spread or dispersed in an untidy or irregular way
Thousands of missiles are scattered across the planet.
scattered rose petals
He picked up the scattered toys.
The fridge door was open and food was scattered across the floor.
to be scattered with something
Every surface is scattered with photographs.

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Scattered

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adj.
1. Loosely distributed; strewn: scattered grains of rice that lay on the sidewalk.
2. Not thinking clearly or in an organized fashion; unfocused.
3. Physics Deflected. Used especially of radiation or particles.

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