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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scatteredadjective

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

    "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"

  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"

Wiktionary

  1. scatteredadjective

    randomly distributed.

  2. scatteredadjective

    covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.

  3. scatteredadjective

    affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.

Wikipedia

  1. Scattered

    Scattered is a song by the British rock band The Kinks. Written by Ray Davies, "Scattered" appeared as the sixteenth track from their album Phobia, and was the band's final original single (only to be followed by reissues of "You Really Got Me" and "Waterloo Sunset".)

ChatGPT

  1. scattered

    Being scattered generally refers to being spread or distributed in different places or locations in a disorganized and irregular way. This can refer to both physical objects and abstract concepts, such as thoughts or feelings. It indicates a lack of concentration, organization, or cohesion.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scattered

    of Scatter

  2. Scatteredadjective

    dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread

  3. Scatteredadjective

    irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves

Wikidata

  1. Scattered

    Scattered is a rave party based in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1998 as a small 150 person event, it has grown over time to large-scale rave which regularly hosts some of the worlds leading happy hardcore, gabber and hard trance DJ's.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scattered in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scattered in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of scattered in a Sentence

  1. The WPC:

    A Slight Risk( Level 2 of 4) of excessive rainfall is in effect from southern Illinois to western New York, as well as over parts of the Southern Appalachians on Southeast Thursday . ''. These areas are expected to have the greatest chances for scattered instances of flash flooding.

  2. Ravindra Gupta:

    These immunocompromised individuals are scattered around the world, so, it is very likely there are undetected variants out there.

  3. Kate Andersen Brower:

    Generally, first ladies have had more success when they have one singular issue that they really drill down on. She might decide to triage if her efforts become scattered.

  4. Elizabeth Dodson:

    Most people have boxes in the closet filled with owners manuals, folders of paper in a desk about the mortgage and sales documents when you bought the home, a stack of product brochures for a home remodel you are planning for, a box of utility bills on the desk, and post-it notes and paper lists of all the things you need to fix or maintain the home, all of this paper scattered everywhere in the home means it takes you forever to find something, and it mentally wears on you about how unorganized you really are.

  5. Tom Landecker:

    [ We now know ] the sources can produce low-frequency radio waves and those low-frequency waves can escape their environment, and are not too scattered to be detected by the time they reach the Earth, that tells us something about the environments and the sources. We haven't solved the problem, but it's several more pieces in the puzzle.

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