Scattery
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
Example
More examples"For one thing, the speakers are writers, their subject literature, and art is proverbially long, and life short and scattery."
Etymology
From scatter + -y.
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