occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"時間または空間において広い空間と不連続の間隔で起きるまた分配される疏ら
lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"整然とした連続性を欠くさま支離滅裂