DISJOINTEDLY Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

disjointedly

adverb

as in fitfully

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Recent Examples of disjointedly The game ran poorly, crashed regularly, looked unremarkable, and drove disjointedly. — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 25 Mar. 2026

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The participants in the meditation group slept more fitfully, with more frequent awakenings, than those who didn’t meditate.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
Martin Filler The Met’s new Tristan und Isolde was a vocal triumph for Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres, but Yuval Sharon’s staging only fitfully captured the essence of Wagner’s masterpiece.

— The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2026

Definition of fitfully

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The prospect of Helen Mirren playing the legendary author Patricia Highsmith at her most unpredictably misanthropic should be enough of a selling point for A Talent for Murder.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
How these two segments smash together so unpredictably and imaginatively makes this yet another new horror film that thinks outside of the box.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of unpredictably

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Perhaps the actions of England’s peasantry made such a formative impression on young Greengrass that he was unconsciously drawn to other stories with a similar thematic undercurrent.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
Likewise, a professional who identifies strongly with a particular school of thought — in economics, medicine, management, or technology — will tend to unconsciously favor sources that reinforce that framework and discount those that challenge it.

— Big Think, Big Think, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of unconsciously

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Additional autonomous cyberattacks were disclosed by Anthropic and Meta in recent months, though in those cases the models had been granted internet access either intentionally or inadvertently.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Three goals up, and pushing for more, Ilias Chair’s high press inadvertently serves up the perfect cross for Lyndon Dykes, completely unmarked, six yards out.

— Amitai Winehouse, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of inadvertently

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The bed in the pipe is also handy to catch small items that accidentally go down the drain.

— Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2026
This strategy also helps employers get to know phenomenal candidates whose applications are going to accidentally be rejected by the ATS and AI systems.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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