Definitions for scattered

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scattered scat·tered

Spelling: [skat-erd]

IPA: /ˈskæt ərd/

Scattered is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 474 anagrams from letters in scattered (acdeerstt).

Definitions for scattered

noun

1. the act of scattering.
2. something that is scattered.

adjective

1. distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals:
2. dispersed; disorganized:
3. distracted or disorganized:
4. Meteorology. (of clouds) covering up to one-half of the sky. Compare broken (def 5).

verb (used with object)

1. to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals:
2. to separate and drive off in various directions; disperse:
3. Physics. to refract or diffract (light or other electromagnetic radiation) irregularly so as to diffuse in many directions. (of a medium) to diffuse or deflect (light or other wave phenomena) by collisions between the wave and particles of the medium.

verb (used without object)

1. to separate and disperse; go in different directions.

Origin of scattered

scatter + -ed²

Examples for scattered

scattered about lay the feathers and dismembered bones of some birds.

scattered tales we have: "mimes" and other things there are some, and may have been more.

scattered here and there were the corpses of horses and donkeys.

scattered around the room are the paintings that his wife did, in a burst of creativity, during the last months of her life.

scattered about she saw a few roots of wall-flowers, pinks and even some violets!

scattered on the floor were pages of what would become Naked Lunch.

scattered along the mainland of this vast continent there was, here and there, an island.

scattered on the sidewalk, just beneath the flickering bulbs, were a handful of honeybees.

scattered all around him from the torn sack was the food he had wanted to give to the cats.

scattered around the country are members of a small fraternity of guys who own tanks.