connected

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adjective

con·​nect·​ed kə-ˈnek-təd 

1

: joined or linked together

2

: having the parts or elements logically linked together

presented a thoroughly connected view of the problem

3

: related by blood or marriage

4

: having social, professional, or commercial relationships

a well-connected lawyer

5

of a set : having the property that any two of its points can be joined by a line completely contained in the set

also : incapable of being separated into two or more closed disjoint subsets

connectedly adverb

connectedness noun

connected

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past tense and past participle of connect

Examples of connected in a Sentence

Adjective

a series of connected rooms

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

And ultimately, the relationship is the reason people choose to stay connected long after the experience is over. — Alvin Stafford, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

His story demonstrates that innovation in caregiving can make communities more compassionate, connected and responsive. — The Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Part of this has come about as a result of retail brokerages advocating for their customers to get first dibs on IPO stocks, rather than having to buy the shares at a premium from the connected clients of big banks. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026

If the probability, p, that an individual pipe is open is low, the probability that the point at the origin belongs to an infinite cluster of connected pipes, θ(p), is zero. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1712, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing connected

• simply connected
• well-connected

Rhymes for connected

• affected
• bisected
• collected
• corrected
• defected
• deflected
• dejected
• detected
• directed
• dissected
• effected
• ejected