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Disconnected   /dˌɪskənˈɛktɪd/   Listen
Disconnected

adjective
1.
(music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply.  Synonym: staccato.  "A staccato command" , "Staccato notes"  Antonym: legato.
2.
Having been divided; having the unity destroyed.  Synonyms: disunited, fragmented, split.  "A league of disunited nations" , "A fragmented coalition" , "A split group"
3.
Marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions.  Synonym: abrupt.
4.
Not plugged in or connected to a power source.
5.
Lacking orderly continuity.  Synonyms: confused, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected.  "A confused dream about the end of the world" , "Disconnected fragments of a story" , "Scattered thoughts"


Disconnect

verb
(past & past part. disconnected; pres. part. disconnecting)
1.
Pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable.  Synonym: unplug.  Antonym: plug in.
2.
Make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten.  Antonym: connect.



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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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