Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Separated at the joints.
- adj. Out of joint; dislocated.
- adj. Lacking order or coherence: disjointed sentences.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the joints or connections separated: as, a disjointed fowl; hence, disconnected; incoherent: as, a disjointed discourse.
- Out of joint; out of order or sorts; badly jointed together.
Wiktionary
- adj. figuratively Not connected, coherent, or continuous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking orderly continuity
- adj. separated at the joint
- adj. taken apart at the joints
Examples
“Todd Taylor The owners spent a year turning what they call a "disjointed" 1950s California ranch house that was made "Italianesque" in the 1980s into this Tuscan-style retreat in Orinda, Calif.”
“Photos: A Private Retreat in the Suburbs Todd Taylor The house, above, is up a private drive DETAILS: The owners spent a year turning what they call a "disjointed" 1950s California ranch house that was made "Italianesque" in the 1980s into this Tuscan-style retreat.”
“Schmid used the word "disjointed" to describe the offensive showing, particularly in the four-man, diamond-shaped midfield.”
“– The beginning is disjointed from the rest of the plot.”
“I still feel a couple of moments were disjointed from the main story, but it's forgivable since I really got sucked into the novel from cover to cover.”
Rabid Reads: "Let Me In" (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist
“That will only occur many presidencies from now, when we are emotionally disjointed from the previous administration, and I believe that it will be my children who judge Bush.”
“But when the following movies feel disjointed from the original I feel that the viewer becomes de-immersed from the world.”
“I found the wrap-up disjointed from the story preceding it.”
“This is a shoddy book written in disjointed flashback and it simply isn't worth your time.”
“It was already done, he said, explaining his motives in short, disjointed sentences.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘disjointed’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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occult, necromancy, diabolism, conjure, metaphoric, metaphor, sorcerer, legerdemain, talisman, amulet, necrophobia, deftness and 135 more...
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abate, abdicate, aberrant, abhor, abjure, abrasive, abridge, abstain, acme, activism, adhere, admonish and 195 more...
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curligirli0's Words
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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The Elegant Universe
Vocab. from "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene
replete, schematic, transient, perturbative, conversely, efficacy, trivial, ostensible, disillusionment, manifest, grandiose, transmute and 48 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 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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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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another yet
anneal, copepod, cuckoo, fathead, intone, patter, cabriole, knickknack, boodle, kit, estrange, forebode and 209 more...
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