[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dispersed \dispersed"\, a.
   scattered. -- dispers"edly, adv. -- dispers"edness,
   n.
   1913 webster

   dispersed harmony mus., harmony in which the tones
      composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave
      or more.
      1913 webster
see also:
dispers"edly dispers"edness dispersed harmony 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

disperse \disperse"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. dispersed; p. pr. 
   vb. n. dispersing. l. dispersus, p. p. of dispergere to
   strew, scatter. see sparse.
   1. to scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to
      distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the jews are
      dispersed among all nations.
      1913 webster

            the lips of the wise disperse knowledge. --prov. xv.
                                                  7.
      1913 webster

            two lions, in the still, dark night,
            a herd of beeves disperse.            --cowper.
      1913 webster

   2. to scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to
      disperse vapors.
      1913 webster

            dispersed are the glories.            --shak.

   syn: to scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse;
        distribute; deal out; disseminate.
        1913 webster
see also:
dispersed dispersing sparse 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dispersed
     adj : distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties
           with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million
           jews are spread throughout europe" syn: spread
see also:
spread 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

98 moby thesaurus words for "dispersed":
   aimless, alienated, amorphous, broadcast, capricious, casual,
   deflected, deflective, desultory, detached, diffracted,
   diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disarticulated, disconnected,
   discontinuous, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint,
   disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, disordered, dispread,
   disproportionate, disseminated, dissipated, distorted, distributed,
   disunited, divided, divorced, erratic, estranged, fitful,
   flectional, flexed, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, haphazard,
   hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate,
   inflective, irregular, isolated, meaningless, misshapen,
   nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless,
   promiscuous, random, refracted, refractile, refractive,
   refrangible, removed, scattered, segregated, senseless, separated,
   sequestered, shapeless, shut off, skew, skewed, sparse, spasmodic,
   sporadic, spread, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, systemless,
   unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined,
   unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical,
   unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering, widespread

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