Disconnected

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disconnect \Dis`con*nect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disconnected};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Disconnecting}.]
     To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to
     sever; to separate; to disperse.
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           The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected
           into the dust and powder of individuality. --Burke.
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           This restriction disconnects bank paper and the
           precious metals.                         --Walsh.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  disconnected \disconnected\ adj.
     1. marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds.
        [Narrower terms: {staccato (vs. legato)}]
  
     Syn: abrupt, broken off(predicate).
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. 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}]
  
     Syn: not ready, off.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
  
     3. noncontinuous; not continuing in time or space. Opposite
        of {continuous}.
  
     Syn: disrupted, discontinuous.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
  
     4. unconnected, detached. Opposite of {connected}.
  
     Syn: disjoined, separate.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     5. lacking orderly continuity; illogical or seemingly
        irrational; as, disconnected fragments of a story.
  
     Syn: confused, disjointed, disordered, disorganized,
          desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered,
          unconnected.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disconnected
       adj 1: marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut
              short crisply; "staccato applause"; "a staccato
              command"; "staccato notes" [syn: {staccato}] [ant: {legato}]
       2: having been divided; having the unity destroyed;
          "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of
          disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of
          disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition";
          "a split group" [syn: {disunited}, {fragmented}, {split}]
       3: marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions;
          "abrupt prose" [syn: {abrupt}]
       4: not plugged in or connected to a power source; "the iron is
          disconnected"
       5: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of
          instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the
          world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered
          thoughts" [syn: {confused}, {disjointed}, {disordered}, {garbled},
           {illogical}, {scattered}, {unconnected}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "disconnected":
     alien, alienated, aloof, apart, broken, broken off, capricious,
     careening, catchy, chopped-off, choppy, confused, decousu,
     desultory, detached, deviative, disarticulated, discontinued,
     discontinuous, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint,
     disjointed, disjunct, disjunctive, dislocated, disordered,
     dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced,
     eccentric, episodic, erratic, estranged, exotic, flickering,
     fluctuating, foreign, gapped, garbled, guttering, halting,
     herky-jerky, heteroclite, illogical, immethodical, inchoate,
     incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsistent,
     inconstant, independent, insular, intermittent, intermitting,
     interrupted, irrational, irregular, irrelative, isolated, jagged,
     jerky, lurching, mixed-up, muddled, nonadherent, nonadhesive,
     noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential,
     nonserial, nonuniform, open, other, outlandish, parenthetic,
     patchy, rambling, random, removed, rough, scattered, scrappy,
     segregate, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off,
     snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, split, sporadic,
     spotty, staggering, strange, suspended, tenuous, unadhesive,
     unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unattached, uncertain,
     uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected, unequal, uneven,
     unintelligible, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorganized,
     unregular, unrelatable, unrelated, unrhythmical, unsettled,
     unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, untenacious, variable,
     veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly