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scatteredadjective lacking a definite plan, purpose, or patterna hodgepodge of scattered ideas that didn't add up to a clear hypothesis aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, erratic, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, random, slapdash, stray accidental, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, fluky(also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, unconsidered, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditatedscattershot, shotgunirregular, odd, sporadic, spotdirectionless, objectless, purposelessindiscriminate, unsystematicundirecteddisorderly, disorganizedundiscriminating, unselective methodical(also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steadyconstant, continuous, evenarranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, plannedaware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful(or wilful) scatteredverbpast tense of scatterto cause (members of a group) to move widely apartthe noise of the backfiring car scattered the pigeons cleared out, disbanded, dispelled, dispersed, dissipated, squandered broke up, isolated, parted, segregated, separated, split (up)diffused, disseminated, diverged, spread assembled, clustered, collected, concentrated, congregated, gathered, ingathered agglutinated, conglomeratedunified, united to cover by or as if by scattering something over or onthe hillside was scattered with boulders deposited by the last ice age bestrewed, dotted, peppered, sowed, spotted, sprayed, sprinkled, strewed blanketed, drizzled, dustedstuddeddappled, flecked, speckled, stippledbespattered, spattered to go off in different directions and cease to exist as a body or unified wholethese drunken revelers will quickly scatter when the police arrive disassembled, dispersed, dissipated, dissolved branched (out), broke up, disbanded, diverged, divided, forked, separated, spilled(also spilt)cleared, disappeared, evanesced, evaporated, faded, fled, melted, went (away) congregated, gathered, met |