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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. 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.

  2. Pushpa Basnet:

    When the earthquake hit that land, all my dreams were scattered, i have to restart again.

  3. Yossi Shvartzvald:

    The planet might look something like snow at sunset but even darker, the ice is not just scattered on the surface; it goes hundreds of miles deep.

  4. Chen Zhanheng:

    It is not very easy to close all illegal mining and it is very easy for illegal miners to steal from the mines. Costs are low, the mines are scattered and some local governments also protect illegal miners.

  5. Kelli Thomas-Drake:

    But the records were scattered across seven different yet equally baffling patient data portals on a single hospital campus.


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