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scattery

scattery adjective: tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.

Adjective

scattery (comparative more scattery, superlative most scattery)

  1. Tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.
    • For one thing, the speakers are writers, their subject literature, and art is proverbially long, and life short and scattery.2007 December 25, Richard Eder, “Zap! Make the Interview Part Jig, Part Bullfight”, in New York Times

Forms of scattery

comparativemore scattery
superlativemost scattery

Origin of scattery

From scatter + -y.

Questions about scattery

What does scattery mean?
Scattery means tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.
What part of speech is scattery?
Scattery is an adjective.

Words near scattery in the dictionary

  1. scatterpoint
  2. scatterpoints
  3. scatters
  4. scattershot
  5. scattersome
  6. scattery
  7. scattier
  8. scattiest
  9. scattily
  10. scattiness
  11. scatting

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