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Scrambled vs Scrambly - What's the difference?

scrambled | scrambly |

As adjectives the difference between scrambled and scrambly

is that scrambled is mixed, disordered, shuffled while scrambly is involving a certain amount of climbing.

As a verb scrambled

is past tense of scramble.

scrambled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Mixed, disordered, shuffled.
  • (rfc-sense) ( of eggs) and cooked.
    • He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled .

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scramble)

    • scrambly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a walk) Involving a certain amount of climbing.
  • * 1999 , Ronald Turnbull, Walking in the Lowther Hills
    • You can now take a steep and scrambly path uphill to the higher, waymarked path, or else return to the roadside for the official start of that same path.
  • * 2003 , Gillian Price, Walking in the Dolomites
    • A ledge takes you behind the first fall, then it's over a rise and down a steep scrambly gully in the shadow of towering red flanks...
  • * 2006 , Dan Bailey, Scotland's mountain ridges
    • In summer this is a scrambly mixture of vegetation and loose rock; when frozen solid or snow covered it's rather more pleasant.
  • (informal) scrambled, mixed-up
  • * 1999 , Jasmine Lee O'Neill, Through the eyes of aliens: a book about autistic people
    • It is possible, in this scrambly way, not only to see colours, but almost to smell them, too.