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Disjointed   /dɪsdʒˈɔɪntɪd/   Listen
Disjointed

adjective
1.
Lacking orderly continuity.  Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected.  "A confused dream about the end of the world" , "Disconnected fragments of a story" , "Scattered thoughts"
2.
Taken apart at the joints.
3.
Separated at the joint.  Synonyms: dislocated, separated.  "A separated shoulder"


Disjoint

verb
(past & past part. disjointed; pres. part. disjointing)
1.
Part; cease or break association with.  Synonyms: disassociate, dissociate, disunite, divorce.
2.
Separate at the joints.  Synonym: disarticulate.
3.
Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of.  Synonym: disjoin.
4.
Become separated, disconnected or disjoint.  Synonym: disjoin.



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"Disjointed" Quotes from Famous Books



... confused murmur in the Hall of the Assizes: disjointed words punctuated the low babel of sounds: "Exile!" "Exile with confiscation!" "Death!" ...
— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
... least, with sketches of a few of the members of this disjointed body; but we must be content with one, and that shall be ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume XIII, No. 376, Saturday, June 20, 1829. • Various
... boulder, holding the other orange in his hand, and reproached himself for coming so ridiculously early on the ground. Before very long, however, he heard the swishing of bushes, footsteps on the hard ground, and the sounds of a disjointed, loud conversation. A voice somewhere behind him said boastfully, "He's game for ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... recollected my baffled contrivances, baffled by my own weak folly, I thought my distraction completed; and down I ran as one frighted at a spectre, ready to howl for vexation; my head and my temples shooting with a violence I had never felt before; and my back aching as if the vertebrae were disjointed, ...
— Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... by different members of my family; but I did not follow their example and seek enjoyment out-of-doors—pleasure in that balmy spring air. Trouble—the first trouble of my life—had laid her hand heavily upon me. The world felt disjointed and all upside-down; I very helpless and lonely in it. I had two sisters, I had a father and a mother; but none the less was I unable to share my grief with any one of them; nay, it had been an absolute relief to me when first one and then another of them had left the house, on business ...
— The First Violin - A Novel • Jessie Fothergill


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