Littered

Definition: Littered

Littered

Adjective

1. Filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish; "the storm left the driveway littered with sticks and debris"; "his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair".

Date "littered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Synonym: Littered

Synonym: cluttered (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Littered

English words defined with "littered": cluttered ♦ lifeless, litter ♦ scattered, strewn ♦ unwrapped. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	It's littered with broken dreams (When She Cries; performing artist: Restless Heart)
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Domain	Title
Music	Garbaged Littered & Totally De (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	In an area north of the city of Al-Basrah, Iraq, which borders Iran, a former wetland has been drained and walled off. Now littered with minefields and gun emplacements, it is a staging area for military exercises.Credit: NASA.		[Walkway and street littered with wood refuse, New Orleans, La.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	In a scene from the movie, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", Jimmy Stewart examines numerous lettes from baskets as well as those littered on the floor of the Senate, as Claude Raines (left) and others look on.Credit: Library of Congress.		Hailstorm. Hail littered on lawn I.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Hailstorm. Hail littered on lawn II.Credit: Library of Congress.		Hailstorm. Hail littered on lawn III.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Photomontage showing nude man and woman next to New York City skyline and harbor, with nude children playing on a littered beach and a smiling Statue of Liberty in foreground.Credit: Library of Congress.		Have you littered lately?.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The lodging of the gravedigger was, like all these shelters of the needy, an unfurnished but much littered loft.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And the littered yard that should have been graveled, and behind, the corn field drying and dying in the sun.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Eritrea	In particular, the gold-rich areas along the Ethiopian border in southwestern Eritrea are now littered with thousands of landmines because of the war. (references)
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"Littered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 63.04% of the time. "Littered" is used about 257 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	63.04%	162	24,580
Lexical Verb (past tense)	29.96%	77	37,929
Adjective (general or positive)	7%	18	82,615
Total	100.00%	257	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "littered": cult-littered, leaf-littered.
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Language		Translations for "littered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		乱丢 (Littering). (various references)

Finnish		roskainen (untidy). (various references)

German		übersät (covered, strewn, studded). (various references)

Greek		σπαρμένοσ (planted, sown, strewn). (various references)

Korean		흩뜨리는 (Messed). (various references)

Manx		orchit (jumbled, mangled, scattered). (various references)

Pig Latin		itteredlay

Swedish		skräpig (rubbishy, untidy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "littered": flittered, glittered, outglittered. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Littered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: letterd, Lettere, literer, littera, Litterer, Litteris, Littlebredy, Littlehey, littorea, Lutterel, Lutterodt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "littered" (pronounced li"terd)
5	l i" t er d	glittered.
4	-i" t er d	embittered, frittered.
3	-t er d	administered, altered, bantered, bartered, bastard, battered, bettered, blistered, bolstered, bustard, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cloistered, clustered, cluttered, countered, cratered, custard, doctored, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, festered, fettered, filibustered, filtered, flattered, flustered, fluttered, fostered, guttered, headquartered, lettered, martyred, mastered, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, mustard, mustered, muttered, neutered, pattered, pestered, petard, petered, plastered, reentered, registered, scattered, sequestered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, unregistered, upholstered, uttered, watered, wintered.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: retitled.
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: retiled, retitle.
	-2 letters: dieter, letted, letter, lieder, litter, reedit, relied, retied, retile, retted, tiered, tilted, tilter, tirled, titled.
	-3 letters: deter, edile, eider, elder, elide, elite, idler, liter, litre, relet, relit, retie, riled, tilde, tiled, tiler, tired, titer, title, titre, treed, tried, trite.
	-4 letters: deer, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dere, diel, diet, dire, dirl.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: flittered, glittered.
	+2 letters: elutriated, embrittled, retaliated.
	+3 letters: alliterated, butterflied, detrimental, dilatometer, interdental, intertilled, multitiered, obliterated, reticulated, titleholder.
	+4 letters: destructible, detractively, detrimentals, dilatometers, extraditable, intercalated, interestedly, interplanted, interpolated, interrelated, lighthearted, multitowered, outglittered, recultivated, restimulated, restrictedly, titleholders, underletting.
	+5 letters: destructively, determinantal, determinately, deterrability, detrimentally, dilatometries, inadvertently, interdentally, interpellated, lepidopterist, rattlebrained, rearticulated, recapitulated, rehabilitated, tetrachloride, tetrafluoride, tetraploidies, trinucleotide.
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