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Smattered vs Scattered - What's the difference?

smattered | scattered |

As verbs the difference between smattered and scattered

is that smattered is (smatter) while scattered is (scatter).

As an adjective scattered is

randomly distributed.

smattered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (smatter)

    • smatter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To talk superficially; to babble.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Of state affairs you cannot smatter .
  • To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.
    • to smatter Arabic
  • (figuratively) To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.
  • To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.

    • Derived terms

    * smatterer * smattering

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • superficial knowledge; a smattering

    • Anagrams

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    scattered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scatter)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Randomly distributed.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • (meteorology, of clouds) covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
  • (meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.

    • Derived terms

    * nonscattered * scatteredly * scatteredness * unscattered

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