scrambled
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
scrambled
adj 1: thrown together in a disorderly fashion; "a scrambled
plan of action"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scramble \Scram"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scrambled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Scrambling}.] [Freq. of Prov. E. scramb to rake
together with the hands, or of scramp to snatch at. cf.
{Scrabble}.]
1. To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to
scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
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2. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon
the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something;
to catch rudely at what is desired.
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Of other care they little reckoning make,
Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
--Milton.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrambled":
aimless, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious,
beyond one, blended, combined, complex, complicated, composite,
compound, compounded, conglomerate, crabbed, cramp, dappled,
designless, difficult, eclectic, empty, equivocal, fifty-fifty,
garbled, half-and-half, hard, hard to understand, heterogeneous,
importless, inane, indiscriminate, insignificant, intricate,
ironic, jumbled, knotty, many-sided, meaningless, medley, mingled,
miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multinational,
multiracial, nonconnotative, nondenotative, null, obfuscated,
obscure, obscured, overtechnical, patchy, perplexed, phatic,
pluralistic, promiscuous, purportless, purposeless, senseless,
syncretic, thrown together, tough, unmeaning, unsignificant,
varied
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