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dispersed

Syllables: dis·persedUK/dɪˈspɜːst//dɪˈspɝst/

dispersed adjective: spread out in space and/or time; not concentrated. Also the simple past and past participle of disperse.

Adjective

dispersed (comparative more dispersed, superlative most dispersed)

  1. Spread out in space and/or time; not concentrated.
    • One other problem studied relates to the potential impact of human waste disposal from dispersed road recreation -- a matter of concern to many managers we've talked to .1976, John C. Hendee, Mack L. Hogans, Russell W. Koch, Dispersed Recreation on Three Forest Road Systems in Washington and Oregon, page 19
    • Practised in the context of a social movement, dispersed leadership has opened opportunities for women to adopt feminalist styles of leadership that invite and increase the participation of women as a group, while it has also provided the means to advance feminist agendas.2009, John Kane, Haig Patapan, Paul 't Hart, Dispersed Democratic Leadership, page 56

Also used as

dispersed is also the simple past and past participle of disperse.

dispersed meaning in Telugu and Gujarati

dispersed in Telugu

చెదరగొట్టారు

dispersed in Gujarati

વિખેરાઈ ગયા, વિખેરાઈ ગયો, વિખેરાઈ

Forms of dispersed

comparativemore dispersed
superlativemost dispersed

Words formed from dispersed

Words that rhyme with dispersed

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Questions about dispersed

What does dispersed mean?
Dispersed means spread out in space and/or time; not concentrated.
What is dispersed in Telugu?
Dispersed in Telugu is చెదరగొట్టారు. See Dispersed meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is dispersed?
Dispersed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dispersed?
Dispersed is pronounced /dɪˈspɜːst/ (UK).

Words near dispersed in the dictionary

  1. dispersant
  2. dispersants
  3. disperse
  4. disperse phase
  5. disperse phases
  6. dispersed
  7. dispersedly
  8. dispersedness
  9. dispersement
  10. disperseness
  11. disperser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispersed (page history and authors); dispersed (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dispersed (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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