adjective. Loosely distributed; strewn.

adjective. Not thinking clearly or in an organized fashion; unfocused.

adjective. Deflected. Used especially of radiation or particles.

Widely separated; found, occurring, or placed at wide or irregular intervals of distance.

Wandering; vague.

Disunited; divided; distracted.

In botany, irregular in position; without apparent regularity of order: as, scattered branches; scattered leaves.

In entomology, irregularly spread or strewn over a surface: noting punctures, dots, or other small marks of sculpture or color. Compare dispersed.

adjective. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.

adjective. Irregular in position; having no regular order.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of scatter.

adjective. randomly distributed.

adjective. covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.

adjective. affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.

adjective. lacking orderly continuity

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

"And how does one understand the effects of war on the relationship between self and place when people-land relationships have been brutally disrupted, when concern over the effects of being "scattered" is matched by the life-or-death tension of resettlement, when where a person belongs (which, in local constructions of place, also means to or with whom) is one of the most pressing questions of the day?"

bunchy  collective  

infrequent  scattered eyes  scattered light  

distributed  incoherent  

battered  flattered  mattered  pattered  shattered  

alienated  all up with  anarchic  arsy-varsy  ass-backwards  

scatter