scattered
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈskætərd/
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disperso
- There were scattered clouds in the sky, indicating a chance of rain.
- small, scattered
Obviously, they're not all in this room, and they are scattered throughout the campus.
- Obviously, they're not all in this room, and they are scattered throughout the campus.
- These holes scattered throughout the throughout the the field.
- Yang scented swirling night sky scattered with stars.
- They are witnessed in in Russia and all scattered across the United States.
- We all of our sets are just scattered around the world, around the world, around Auckland.
- I don't know where Z came from compared to all the scattered sunlight still in the atmosphere.
- And then we see like the raw materials scattered around or perhaps not even scattered, maybe piled around.
- Build community, stay in touch, cheer each other on, share updates with widely scattered social networks.
- So it's a broken world, but it's also a world in which scattered all around us are the shards of light from this vessel.
- So today on the Wealth Building Show, we're going to discover how to build a successful work culture in this scattered work environment.
- That idea of the gathering in, of a, of a scattered creation.
Examples
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Obviously, they're not all in this room, and they are scattered throughout the campus.
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There were only a few scattered grains left.
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That means it's scattered more often, right?
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The tenants held their land scattered in strips across the field.
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So there are these shards of light scattered all around us.
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Build community, stay in touch, cheer each other on, share updates with widely scattered social networks.
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And still, there were no mountains, only endless hills where small, scattered herds of buffalo grazed or antelope ran.
Fiction book (1994) -
In areas with small, scattered Jewish populations, these actions nurtured the very survival of Jewish identity promulgated on gender, socializing, education, and religion.
Academic text (2003) -
After the storm, the leaves were scattered all over the yard.
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The children found scattered toys in every corner of the messy room.
Synonyms
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4.8
In a confused, disorganized way with things or thoughts scattered
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2.8
To move apart and cover a wider area
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7.0
Happening sometimes and in different places
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5.0
Present in small numbers or amounts
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4.4
Spreading out over a large area in an untidy way like a city or tree branches
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6.4
Spread out over a large area and not in one place
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6.5
Having long, loose parts that look untidy, like hair or bushes
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2.8
Covered with many small spots of a different color
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3.5
Arranged so they cover a wide area like papers fanned on a table
Spread out across a wide area
Spread out across an area or shared among many people
Spread out in an untidy, scattered way, like houses far from a village
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How Scattered
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Etymology
Scattered comes from the verb scatter, which once meant 'to throw in different directions', like when you scatter seeds across a field, so scattered describes things that are 'spread out' or 'found here and there' over an area.