disconnected
Definition of disconnected
: not connected : separate; also : incoherent a disconnected narrative
disconnectedly
adverbdisconnectedness
nounPeople Are Reading
Examples of disconnected in a Sentence
The phone lines are all disconnected.
Her biography reads like a series of disconnected stories.
Recent Examples of disconnected from the Web
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The scenes following Mara's departure move more speedily than those that came before it; more residents come and go, but the ghost remains, unconnected to the new homeowners and increasingly disconnected from himself.
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The phone number listed for the center had been disconnected.
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City lines are often disconnected and reconnected with a homeowner's pipe system.
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Throughout the health-care debate, Republicans have managed to submerge this disconnected, obfuscatory rhetoric.
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Press umpteen numbers in that automated system, wait a lifetime on hold for a live operator and then get disconnected.
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But the many twists and turns could have flowed better, with scenes often feeling disconnected.
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Officers were dispatched to the apartment in the 1000 block of W. Badger Road around 5:30 a.m. following a disconnected 911 call.
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The Fort Worth location has already been removed from the Avanti website, and the phone has been disconnected.
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First Known Use of disconnected
1783
DISCONNECTED Defined for English Language Learners
disconnected
Definition of disconnected for English Language Learners
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: not connected to something (such as a power source)
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: not having parts joined together in a logical way
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