Synonyms for scattered
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1. scatteredadjective

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

   "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"

   Synonyms:
   unconnected, illogical, disordered, disjointed, garbled, confused, disconnected

   Antonyms:
   consistent, ordered, concentrated, coherent, logical

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"

   Synonyms:
   abrupt, befuddled, staccato, mixed-up, disoriented, disordered, bemused, separated, at sea, fragmented, illogical, lost, disconnected, unconnected, unordered, baffled, unlogical, upset, confounded, broken, disjointed, split, dislocated, disunited, garbled, mazed, bewildered, confused

   Antonyms:
   ordered, coherent, logical, concentrated, consistent

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1. scatteredadjective

   Synonyms:
   strewn, sprinkled

2. scatteredadjective

   Synonyms:
   diffused, dispersed, spread about

3. scatteredadjective

   Synonyms:
   sporadic, occurring here and there

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1. List of paraphrases for "scattered":

   dispersed, sparse, sporadic, spread, disseminated, distributed, fragmented, decentralized, patchy, odd-job, piecemeal, littered, dispersal, diffuse

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1. Anne Lester:

   A really bad outcome is to have lots of little accounts scattered around. It's easy to forget about them. It doesn't let you appreciate how much you've really saved. And the odds of screwing something up gets higher.

2. Joseph Addison:

   What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

3. Viraphonh Viravong:

   Some companies are on the very preliminary basis looking at the possibility of finding shale gas, we have a few deposits of coal, but it's scattered and not in blocks, so they expect shale gas to be trapped around those areas and so will be looking at that instead of oil.

4. John Foster:

   For shocks traveling toward our planet, Earth’s magnetic field would take the direct hit such that most of the resulting disturbance would be confined to Earth’s outer magnetic field – our magnetosphere – with the ‘ noticeable ’ effects being those associated with a large geomagnetic storm – bright aurora, communications disturbances, scattered electrical power outages.

5. Kelli Thomas-Drake:

   But the records were scattered across seven different yet equally baffling patient data portals on a single hospital campus.