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UNCONNECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking orderly continuity
Example:
scattered thoughts
Synonyms:
confused; disconnected; disjointed; disordered; garbled; illogical; scattered; unconnected
Classified under:
Similar:
incoherent (without logical or meaningful connection)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not joined or linked together
Classified under:
Similar:
apart; isolated; obscure (remote and separate physically or socially)
asternal (not connected to the sternum or breastbone)
detached; separated (no longer connected or joined)
disjoined; separate (have the connection undone; having become separate)
exploded (showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another)
unattached (not fastened together)
uncoupled (having the coupling undone)
Also:
unrelated (lacking a logical or causal relation)
Attribute:
connectedness; connection; connexion (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))
Antonym:
connected (joined or linked together)
Derivation:
unconnectedness (the lack of a connection between things)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not connected by birth or family
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unrelated (not connected by kinship)
Derivation:
unconnectedness (the lack of a connection between things)
Context examples:
William was gone, and she now felt as if she had wasted half his visit in idle cares and selfish solicitudes unconnected with him.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He never said a great deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking or of listening much; but it struck her in the course of their third rencontre that he was asking some odd unconnected questions—about her pleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins's happiness; and that in speaking of Rosings and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be staying there too.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
If she could have believed Mary's future fate as unconnected with Mansfield as she was determined the brother's should be, if she could have hoped her return thither to be as distant as she was much inclined to think his, she would have been light of heart indeed; but the more she recollected and observed, the more deeply was she convinced that everything was now in a fairer train for Miss Crawford's marrying Edmund than it had ever been before.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
