Adjective: disperse
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more disperse |
| Superlative | most disperse |
Sample Sentences
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Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains. [1998, James-Yves Roger, Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities:]
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In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector. [2014, Didier J. Dubois, Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, page 85:]
Adjectives inflected like disperse
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.
Verbs referencing "disperse"
Finnish Adjectives
disperssi.