'Dispersed' definitions:
Definition of 'dispersed'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe" [syn: dispersed, spread]
Definition of 'Dispersed'
From: GCIDE
- Disperse \Dis*perse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispersed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispersing.] [L. dispersus, p. p. of dispergere to strew, scatter. See Sparse.]
- 1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. [1913 Webster]
- The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. --Prov. xv. 7. [1913 Webster]
- Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors. [1913 Webster]
- Dispersed are the glories. --Shak.
- Syn: To scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse; distribute; deal out; disseminate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dispersed'
From: GCIDE
- Dispersed \Dis*persed"\, a. Scattered. -- {Dis*pers"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*pers"ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
- Dispersed harmony (Mus.), harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dispersed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aimless,
- alienated,
- amorphous,
- broadcast,
- capricious,
- casual,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- desultory,
- detached,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- dispread,
- disproportionate,
- disseminated,
- dissipated,
- distorted,
- distributed,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- erratic,
- estranged,
- fitful,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indiscriminate,
- inflective,
- irregular,
- isolated,
- meaningless,
- misshapen,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- orderless,
- planless,
- promiscuous,
- random,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- removed,
- scattered,
- segregated,
- senseless,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- shapeless,
- shut off,
- skew,
- skewed,
- sparse,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- spread,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strewn,
- strown,
- systemless,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- wandering,
- widespread