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

scattered \scat"tered\, a.
   1. dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
      1913 webster

   2. bot. irregular in position; having no regular order; as,
      scattered leaves.
      1913 webster -- scat"teredly, adv. --
      scat"teredness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
scat"teredly scat"teredness 

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

scatter \scat"ter\, v. t. imp.  p. p. scattered; p. pr. 
   vb. n. scattering. oe. scateren. see shatter.
   1. to strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely;
      to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or
      sparse order.
      1913 webster

            and some are scattered all the floor about.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            why should my muse enlarge on libyan swains,
            their scattered cottages, and ample plains?
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

            teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly,
            soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy. --prior.
      1913 webster

   2. to cause to separate in different directions; to reduce
      from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to
      dissipate; to disperse.
      1913 webster

            scatter and disperse the giddy goths. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to
      scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
      1913 webster

   syn: to disperse; dissipate; spread; strew.
        1913 webster
see also:
scattered scattering shatter 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

scattered
     adj 1: occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular
            intervals in time or space; "scattered showers";
            "scattered villages"
     2: not close together in time; "isolated instances of
        rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his
        thigh" syn: isolated, stray
     3: being distributed here and there without order; "scattered
        leaves littered the sidewalk"; "don't forget to pick up
        the clothes lying strewn all over the floor" syn: strewn
     4: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of
        instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the
        world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered
        thoughts" syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed,
        disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected
see also:
isolated stray strewn confused disconnected disjointed 
disordered garbled illogical unconnected 

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

143 moby thesaurus words for "scattered":
   alienated, all up with, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards,
   balled up, beat, beaten, bested, bollixed up, broadcast, chaotic,
   cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, confounded, confused, defeated,
   deflected, deflective, detached, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse,
   diffused, disarticulated, discomfited, disconnected, discrete,
   disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated,
   dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissipated, distorted,
   distributed, disunited, divided, divorced, done for, done in, down,
   estranged, exiguous, fallen, fixed, flectional, flexed, floored,
   fouled up, galley-west, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy,
   hors de combat, hugger-mugger, in a mess, inflective, infrequent,
   isolated, jumbled, lambasted, lathered, licked, meager, miserly,
   mixed up, mucked up, muddled, niggardly, on the skids, outdone,
   overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered,
   overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked,
   piddling, poor, put to rout, rare, refracted, refractile,
   refractive, refrangible, removed, routed, ruined, scant, scanty,
   scarce, screwed up, scrimping, scrimpy, segregated,
   seldom met with, seldom seen, separated, sequestered, settled,
   shut off, silenced, skew, skewed, skimble-skamble, skimping,
   skimpy, skinned, skinned alive, slim, snafu, sparse, sporadic,
   spotty, spread, sprinkled, stampeded, stingy, straggling, straggly,
   strewn, strown, thin, tight, topsy-turvy, trimmed, trounced,
   undone, upset, upside-down, whelmed, whipped, widespread,
   worsted

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