disconnected
/dɪskəˈnɛktɪd
/adjective
1Having had a connection broken: he expected the disconnected phone to start ringing...
- They gave me one phone number which I had checked out, turned out to be a disconnected phone number of a textile mill that had gone bankrupt.
- It was as if no one was to blame - save for a disconnected phone line.
- The last he heard was a desperate disconnected phone call during Hurricane Katrina.
1.1 [predicative] (Of a person) lacking contact with reality: I drove away, feeling disconnected from the real world...
- Brought forth in the programme are images that encompass and translate the diverse emotions of the disconnected people.
- This disconnected person was not the Jeri they knew - what in the world was going on?
- She stepped back, of her own choice, and went from being immersed in something with me to being a disconnected observer.
Synonyms
detached, separate, separated, divorced, cut off, isolated, dissociated, disengaged, removed, unconnected, unattached;
apart
1.2(Of speech, writing, or thought) lacking a logical sequence: a disconnected narrative...
- The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of disconnected thought and jarring line breaks.
- And afterwards, I was left with a straight flush of surreal, striking, disconnected impressions and memories.
- History and a chain of disconnected memories came crashing over one another in my head.
Synonyms
disjointed, incoherent, garbled, confused, jumbled, mixed up, unintelligible, rambling, wandering, disorganized, uncoordinated, ill-thought-out, illogical, irrational;
haphazard, random
Derivatives
disconnectedly
/ adverb ...- The film opens on a small evening party: four individuals dancing, swaying, laughing disconnectedly.
- ‘I know what they took… ‘He said disconnectedly, staring blankly off into nowhere, ‘I know what they took from me.’
- Simultaneously, but disconnectedly, each finds himself changed by the funeral, from the moment of the funeral, and changing in ways both dramatic and imperceptible.
disconnectedness
/ noun ...- If this situation does produce bodies of work consistent in their disconnectedness from the world, no one should find that particularly ‘subconscious’ or surprising.
- It's quite clear to me however that, in the long term, this era of historical disconnectedness will pass, and will be judged by future historians as a period in which human development entered and sat sad and disconsolate in the doldrums.
- The tension was building as the deadline for the announcement approached and I couldn't put up any longer with the disconnectedness of the web.