scattery

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adjective

Tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.

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Meanings

adjectivescattery (comparative more scattery, superlative most 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

Origin

From scatter + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

cytaster
Cite this entry
APA

scattery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scattery

MLA

“scattery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scattery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scattery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scattery.

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