LITTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does littered mean? 

• LITTERED (adjective)
  The adjective LITTERED has 1 sense:

1. filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish

  Familiarity information: LITTERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish

Synonyms:

cluttered; littered

Context example:

his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair

Similar:

untidy (not neat and tidy)

 Context examples 

The limbs and body of some large, white bird, torn savagely to pieces with the feathers still on, were littered all over it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The carpet round his chair was littered with cigarette-ends and with the early editions of the morning papers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This bottom was littered with great gobbets of flesh, most of which was in the last state of putridity.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Burley lay senseless, stunned by a blow from a mace, and half of the men-at-arms lay littered upon the ground around him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our Milky Way Galaxy is littered with these stellar relics, called planetary nebulae.

(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)

He could see only the littered writing-table, the empty space where the type-writer had stood, and the unwashed window-pane.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A table in the centre was littered with English magazines and newspapers, though none of them were of very recent date.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Table and bunk were littered with designs and calculations.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Our Milky Way galaxy is littered with the still-sizzling remains of exploded stars.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

We went into a little back-parlour behind the shop, where we found three young women at work on a quantity of black materials, which were heaped upon the table, and little bits and cuttings of which were littered all over the floor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)