1. Cut off or left behind; SYN. marooned, stranded.
2. Not close together in time; SYN. scattered, stray.
3. Under forced isolation especially for health reasons; SYN. quarantined.
1. Being distributed here and there without order; SYN. strewn.
2. Occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space
ETYM Greek, scattered, from from sperein to sow seed, to scatter like seed: cf. French sporadique. Related to Spore.
Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances.