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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for dispersed:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

dispersed
    adj 1: distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has
           ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million
           Jews are spread throughout Europe" [syn: dispersed,
           spread]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. --Prov. xv.
                                                  7.
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            Two lions, in the still, dark night,
            A herd of beeves disperse.            --Cowper.
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   2. To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to
      disperse vapors.
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            Dispersed are the glories.            --Shak.

   Syn: To scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse;
        distribute; deal out; disseminate.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dispersed \Dis*persed"\, a.
   Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness,
   n.
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   Dispersed harmony (Mus.), harmony in which the tones
      composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave
      or more.
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