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disconnected, ppl. a.|dɪskəˈnɛktɪd|
[f. disconnect v. + -ed1: but in sense usually privative of connected.]
1. Having no connexion (with something else, or with each other); detached (from); unconnected, separate.
1783Blair Lect. Rhet. xv. (Seager), An allegory..may be allowed to stand more disconnected with the literal meaning. 1799H. More Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 177 The chronology being reduced to disconnected dates, instead of presenting an unbroken series. 1831Westm. Rev. XIV. 51 An inland sea, totally disconnected from the ocean. 1865Sat. Rev. 12 Aug. 205/2 One [paper] wholly disconnected with the county. 1879D. M. Wallace Australas. ii. 19 The elevations consisting more frequently of low disconnected hills.
b. Without family connexions; not well-connected.
1848C. Brontë J. Eyre xvi, A Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.
2. Destitute of connexion between its parts; incoherent. (Also transf. of a speaker or writer.)
1870Daily News 10 Oct., The plot is complicated and disconnected. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 157 He [a lecturer] was disconnected.
Hence discoˈnnectedly adv., in a disconnected manner; discoˈnnectedness, the quality of being disconnected.
1864Athenæum No. 1920. 215/3 Accomplished disconnectedly during growth. 1874Daily News 26 June 2/1 A roar of ‘Divide!’ arose, which completely drowned his voice and lent an appearance of disconnectedness to the general tenour of his remarks. 1881S. Colvin Landor v. 100 It was thus an essential habit of Landor's mind..to think in fragments and disconnectedly. 1885Athenæum 23 May 660/3 The style reminds us throughout of that of Miss Thackeray..by reason of its occasional disconnectedness. |