litteredadj.
/ˈlɪtəd/, U.S. /ˈlɪdərd/ In senses of the verb.
1. Employed or strewn as litter; also, scattered in disorder.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > scattered in disorder
littered1754
1754 R. Dodsley Agric. in Public Virtue ii. 231 Strew around Old leaves or litter'd straw, to screen from heat The tender infants.
1863 A. B. Grosart Small Sins (ed. 2) 67 I remember how the littered concealing straw was raised.
1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis II. 137 See these littered shards upon the sordid earth!
2. Covered or strewn with litter; clogged up with litter.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] > littered or cluttered
littery1847
cluttered1865
littered1870
1870 Evening Standard 29 Oct. From one of the upper balconies of this littered chateau we looked down upon Paris.
1895 Educat. Rev. Sept. 166 The mind is left in a littered-up condition.
1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 220/1 He looked at the littered table.
3. That has produced a litter.Apparently an isolated use.
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1894 W. E. Gladstone tr. Horace Odes iii. xxvii. 1 With littered fox, and lapwing's call.
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