dispersed

1. 1.

   distributed or spread over a considerable extent

   “has ties with many widely dispersed friends”

   “eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe”

   Synonymsspread

   Similardistributed

Other forms of dispersed

comparative

dispersedder·

superlative

disperseddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dispersed

What does dispersed mean?

dispersed means "distributed or spread over a considerable extent".

How many syllables are in dispersed?

dispersed has 2 syllables: disper-sed. The stress falls on "sed". In IPA it is /dɪˈspɝst/.

What is another word for dispersed?

Close synonyms include spread. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dispersed a common word?

dispersed is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.