disconnected

disconnected

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdɪskəˈnɛktəd/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adjective

disconnected (comparative more disconnected, superlative most disconnected)

  1. That is no longer connected.
    Synonym: deconnected
    Antonym: connected
    There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
  2. Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
    I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.
  3. Incoherent; disjointed.
  4. (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.

Derived terms

Verb

disconnected

  1. simple past and past participle of disconnect
    The phone company disconnected my DSL.

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