scattersome

English

Etymology

From scatter +‎ -some.

Adjective

scattersome (comparative more scattersome, superlative most scattersome)

1. Characterised or marked by scattering
   • 1970, Fatigue Life of Prestressed Concrete Beams, American Society of Civil Engineers:

     In general, theoretical evaluation of Ψ is not feasible, because of the lack of basic information on steel-concrete bond properties and the scattersome nature of the phenomenon.

   • 2016, Hugo Hennegau, Society Ludvika:

     Sunshine in his mind Kittelsens her hair, where stirs neither milk nor myth for whose skin so fair; sure were these prayers which abounded by cairn, but surer the year he disowned the stones, casting scattersome them 'to drear, [...]