Scattery vs Scatters - What's the difference?

As an adjective scattery

is tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.

(scatter).

(en adjective)

Tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.

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(head)

(scatter)

(en verb)

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

the police scattered the crowds

the crowd scattered

* Shakespeare

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

* Dryden

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

(physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).

To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

to scatter hopes or plans

* scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot