Definition of disconnected in English:

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adjective

1Having 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.’
- ‘Cal looked to her, then the disconnected phone.’
- ‘He discovered that only thing wrong about the record was a disconnected phone number.’
- ‘I arrived home to an eviction notice, no electricity and a disconnected phone.’
- ‘They bring the benefits to disconnected servers without the high cost of connectivity.’
- ‘It was the disconnected smoke alarm which landed him a death sentence as it made the so-called crime pre-meditated.’
- ‘The violations included exposed wiring, fire doors off their hinges and a disconnected smoke-alarm system.’
- ‘So this week Dave has published another number to help readers who can't get through on the disconnected line.’
- ‘John, an English expat who practises an obscure form of spiritual therapy, lives and works surrounded by musty books, bottles of vodka, and a disconnected telephone.’
- ‘This theme is picked up with the album's cover art that shows him sitting in the middle of a streetcar lane with a forlorn look on his face, holding a disconnected receiver of a telephone in his hand.’
- ‘Once the computer is off, it's disconnected from the server and you can't send messages to it.’
- ‘He disclosed that cases have been reported with officials tampering with disconnected water and electricity meters in return for bribes.’
- ‘A wired world changes much more rapidly than a disconnected one and the more people wired together, the faster the change.’
1. 1.1predicative (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.’
  ‘She was disconnected and unpleasant to be around.’
  ‘As their force in our culture wanes, that culture risks becoming a backdrop for escalating rivalry among disconnected individuals.’
  ‘How long could this last before it became politics as usual - just another remote fight among impersonal disconnected fellows?’
  ‘The power of the book comes, though, from the poignant descriptions of the well-meaning but disconnected members and friends of the family.’
  ‘We could bring kids in from other countries to share their experiences in these big states in the Midwest, where there are a lot of young people who are totally disconnected.’
  ‘But I think we can be a disconnected, impatient and lonely people.’
  ‘It's natural… people don't usually enjoy feeling this disconnected unless they're willing participants.’
  ‘Is this another stuffy book by a disconnected reggae academic?’
  detached, separate, separated, divorced, cut off, isolated, dissociated, disengaged, removed, unconnected, unattached
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2. 1.2(of speech, writing, or thought) lacking a logical sequence; incoherent.
  ‘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.’
  ‘It's the remarkable story of the father he knew only as a series of disconnected memories.’
  ‘Students milled around, offering a disconnected sense of safety.’
  ‘The formerly disconnected ideas are gradually shown to fit into each other.’
  ‘But one wondered at the overuse of casual brackets, the plethora of connected dots to shape disconnected thoughts.’
  ‘Only the husband remains unheard, for reasons which become obvious as the disconnected narrative evolves.’
  ‘The imagery and camerawork are almost painfully beautiful, while the disconnected narrative deliberately withholds closure.’
  ‘At first Ellen is confused by the disconnected stories, and wonders if he is making them up as he goes along.’
  ‘This plodding, wandering, disconnected story pulls out every melodramatic stop to tug at your heartstrings.’
  ‘So often our lives appear as a series of disconnected and disjointed dots and lines.’
  ‘The narrative of the book is also disconnected, with plenty of non sequiturs between chapters.’
  ‘In many Impressionist pictures the only thing that the disconnected elements have in common is to be within the same frame at the same time.’
  ‘To me, such compositions suggest the multiple, disconnected motifs that you often find on an artist's sketchbook page.’
  ‘Her disconnected chain of thoughts focused on the weekend.’
  ‘It made me vaguely nervous to see it there, so close, though in a disconnected type of way.’
  ‘It is difficult to look for connections among disconnected events, but to the extent that it can happen, it is likely to result in better solutions.’
  ‘The work takes the form of a series of disconnected and discrete episodes, without essential inner connection, and becomes somewhat tedious as a result.’
  ‘Sitting at either end of a long pub lounge, the characters tell their parallel stories by means of disconnected, intertwined monologues.’
  disjointed, incoherent, garbled, confused, jumbled, mixed up, unintelligible, rambling, wandering, disorganized, uncoordinated, ill-thought-out, illogical, irrational
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