Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Separated at the joints.
- adjective Out of joint; dislocated.
- adjective Lacking order or coherence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective figuratively Not
connected ,coherent , orcontinuous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking orderly continuity
- adjective separated at the joint
- adjective taken apart at the joints
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Examples
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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.
A Private Retreat In the Suburbs Sarah Tilton 2011
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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.
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Schmid used the word "disjointed" to describe the offensive showing, particularly in the four-man, diamond-shaped midfield.
The Seattle Times 2011
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– The beginning is disjointed from the rest of the plot.
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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.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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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 2010
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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.
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But when the following movies feel disjointed from the original I feel that the viewer becomes de-immersed from the world.
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I found the wrap-up disjointed from the story preceding it.
Reader reviews of The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. 2006
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This is a shoddy book written in disjointed flashback and it simply isn't worth your time.
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