Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not joined or connected.
- adjective Not coherent; disconnected.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not connected; not united; separate.
- Without connections or relations; specifically, without family, friends, or special obligations.
- Not coherent; not connected by proper transitions or dependence of parts; loose; vague; rambling; desultory: as, an unconnected discourse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not
connected orjoined - adjective
confused ordisconnected
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not joined or linked together
- adjective lacking orderly continuity
- adjective not connected by birth or family
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Examples
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Apophenia is the psychopathology of seeing meaningful patterns in unconnected, random data.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The second theme in my eyes was a hard critique of isolated nuclear families unconnected from a wider community and a hard critique of prejudice generally.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Bizarre Readings of Gran Torino 2009
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Antoninus wrote down his reflections for his own use only, in short unconnected paragraphs, which are often obscure.
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Antoninus wrote down his reflections for his own use only, in short, unconnected paragraphs, which are often obscure.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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Antoninus wrote down his reflections for his own use only, in short, unconnected paragraphs, which are often obscure.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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One with the guy drunken, with a blonde whom the paper edition gallantly identifies as unconnected, though the website does not.
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One with the guy drunken, with a blonde whom the paper edition gallantly identifies as unconnected, though the website does not.
Archive 2008-03-02 2008
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However the divide between the haves and the unconnected is a challenge with around 10 million homes with no net access and sticking.
The 40% Broadband Challenge Martyn Daniels 2007
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However the divide between the haves and the unconnected is a challenge with around 10 million homes with no net access and sticking.
Archive 2007-11-01 Martyn Daniels 2007
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But an MP3 player with a music store and hundreds of music channels built-in could make the iPod seem unconnected, which is rarely a good thing to be Eliot Van Buskirk, who also contributes to the Listening Post blog , has covered digital music since 1998, after seeing the world's first MP3 player sitting on a colleague's desk.
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