Scattery

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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