Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not connected; separate or detached.
- adj. Marked by unrelated parts; incoherent: described the accident in a disconnected way.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of disconnect.
- adj. That is no longer connected.
- adj. Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
- adj. mathematics, of a topological space That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds.
- adj. not switched on or not connected to a power source; -- of electrical equipment.
- adj. noncontinuous; not continuing in time or space. Opposite of
continuous . - adj. unconnected, detached. Opposite of
connected . - adj. lacking orderly continuity; illogical or seemingly irrational.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
- adj. having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- adj. lacking orderly continuity
- adj. not plugged in or connected to a power source
- adj. (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply
Examples
“Sloane stared at the phone, the word disconnected shouting at him.”
“Being retired means that I can get kind of disconnected from the calendar.”
“The headline is totally disconnected from the content.”
“[Socrates] forces Gorgias to admit that such sophisticated language, disconnected from the roots of truth, in fact pursues some ulterior motives, that it invariably turns into an instrument of power, something it has been, by its very nature, right from the start. ....”
“The author expressly warns us against the wrong path up which we might be led by a Neoscholastic sacramental theology that is disconnected from the living form of the Liturgy.”
“Sullivan writes that to focus narrowly on Khamenei and the Royal [sic] Guard, would put us in the same place we were in the 1970s: out of touch with the situation on the ground, and disconnected from the concerns of ordinary Iranians.”
“But Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her life after a devastating car accident that has left her disconnected from the world, a prisoner of her own guilt and grief.”
“On the morning of October 31, somewhat disconnected from the world, I suddenly remembered it was Halloween.”
“Because they are perceived as “too disconnected from the harsh Middle East reality,” Sharansky explained, noting that most Israelis believe that democracy in the Arab world could easily translate into even greater hostility toward Israel.”
Matthew Yglesias » Do Critics of Israeli Policy Whine Too Much?
“While I am an avid space enthusiast, I agree with your point that much of space exploration seems disconnected from the rest of society here on earth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘disconnected’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
FUN - World of Warcraft terminology
cloth wearing player, new player, paladin specifica..., achievement, additional monster, sex, location, agility equivalen..., old kingdom, alchemist, alliance, alterac valley and 424 more...
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SCIE - graph theory
morphism, preorder, diagram, vector, quiver, functor, ancestor, successor, parent, simple, source, embedding and 423 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Alles ganz verschieden
Listed various words that have come into my mind. Will edit them at some point - honestly.
dog-gold, shoulderlooker, mr. considering, the pigwoman, stevie is waiting, chingwybodganpwy, thelandscapeisstu..., couchsurfing, cappuccinodrinking, meat-eater, posher, mae rhaid i fi fynd and 581 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 204 more...
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You Broke It!
After the school bully breaks your new yo-yo, you can use these words to describe it. All hail the carnage!
broken, faulty, slipshod, weak, destroyed, dismantled, busted, cracked, chipped, bent, shattered, irreparable and 147 more...
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TT3 Lesson 32
abroad, granny, help, move, simplify, space, watch, patient, impatient, set the table, polite, impolite and 9 more...
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Morbidity
sickness (preferably of the brain)
morbidity, disease, malady, ailment, oneirophrenia, hysteria, dissociation, depersonalization, schizoaffective, neuropsychiatry, chronic, obsessive and 86 more...
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