scattered

About 15.93 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of scatter
2. adjective Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.

   scattered applause

3. adjective Seemingly randomly distributed.
4. adjective Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
5. adjective Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.

   Scattered showers.

Similar words

stray disordered sporadic confused garbled disjointed isolated incoherent disconnected illogical

Often followed by

over in throughout about through and all around by

Word family

scatter scatterer scatterers scattering scatters