scattered
adjective
1. occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space
- scattered showers
- scattered villages
Similar word(s): distributed
2. lacking orderly continuity
- scattered thoughts
Similar word(s): incoherent, confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected
3. (meteorology, of clouds) covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of scatter