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/dˌɪskənˈɛktɪd/ Listen

verb

Disconnect v. t. (past & past part. disconnected; pres. part. disconnecting) To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. "The commonwealth itself would... be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality." "This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals."

adjective

disconnected adj.

Marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds. (Narrower terms: staccato (vs. legato))

Synonyms: abrupt, broken off(predicate).

Not switched on or not connected to a power source; of electrical equipment. (Narrower terms: off-line (vs. on-line), offline, off line(predicate); unplugged)

Synonyms: not ready, off.

Noncontinuous; not continuing in time or space. Opposite of continuous.

Synonyms: disrupted, discontinuous.

Unconnected, detached. Opposite of connected.

Synonyms: disjoined, separate.

Lacking orderly continuity; illogical or seemingly irrational; as, disconnected fragments of a story.

Synonyms: confused, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered, unconnected.

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Etymology of 'Disconnected'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disconnected" Quotes from Famous Books

... guests were grouped beside Lidgerwood when he disconnected the pocket set from the cut wire, and temporarily repaired the break. The service-car had been turned into a make-shift hospital for the wounded, and ...

— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde

... conceit you may have had concerning your own importance or ability. Listen to everything if you are wise—I always do. I am an old and practised listener. And I have never listened in vain. All the information I have gained through listening, though apparently at first disconnected and unclassified, has fitted into my work like the stray pieces of a puzzle, and has proved eminently useful. Wherever I am I always keep my ...

— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli

... of France had acquiesced in the change, the minister of the United States was directed by telegraph to recognize it and to tender my congratulations and those of the people of the United States. The reestablishment in France of a system of government disconnected with the dynastic traditions of Europe appeared to be a proper subject for the felicitations of Americans. Should the present struggle result in attaching the hearts of the French to our simpler forms of representative government, it will be a subject of still further satisfaction ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... their changes and, therefore, no possibility for defensive or protective action. His physical structure uses and excretes energy so rapidly that he cannot store it up and go to sleep on his savings, and his harvests are usually so lean and disconnected that the exercise of thrift is equally an impossibility and a mockery. The life, therefore, of such a person is composed of a constant series of adjustments and readjustments, and the stern ability wherewith these changes are met and combated are more admirably ingenious than the much-praised ...

— Mary, Mary • James Stephens

... scheme of thought. But, as a matter of fact, though few of his followers will take Browning's literary form seriously, he took his own literary form very seriously. Now Pippa Passes is, among other things, eminently remarkable as a very original artistic form, a series of disconnected but dramatic scenes which have only in common the appearance of one figure. For this admirable literary departure Browning, amid all the laudations of his "mind" and his "message," has scarcely ever had credit. And ...

— Robert Browning • G. K. Chesterton

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