scattered

occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space

• “scattered showers”
• “scattered villages”

not close together in time

• “isolated instances of rebellion”
• “scattered fire”
• “a stray bullet grazed his thigh”

being distributed here and there without order

• “scattered leaves littered the sidewalk”
• “don”

lacking orderly continuity

• “a confused set of instructions”
• “a confused dream about the end of the world”
• “disconnected fragments of a story”
• “scattered thoughts”