unconnected

Examples

• All

• What happened to you happened in part because you let yourselves get far too unconnected.

  Fiction book (1999)

• You may end up with a task wholly unconnected to writing, but still get great.

  Blog text (21)

• All you would need to keep yourself clean would be someone unconnected, someone like me.

  Fiction book (1996)

• What would your advice be for, I guess unconnected Stanford students and trying to start their first company?

• So maybe these two dots that are unconnected would represent us at this time, right?

• Now I am living in Cairo, and I feel unconnected to my characters.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I am feeling very unconnected to Friends, whom I dearly love, and that is so sad.

  Blog text (22)

• Rodin created an ensemble of unconnected figures, each with its individual gesture of mixed resolution and despair.

  Academic text (1995)

• In 1995, about 20 percent of Texas's 357,000 colonia residents were unconnected to central drinking-water systems.

  Academic text (2003)

• The remote village remained unconnected to the rest of the country for years due to poor infrastructure.

Synonyms

U

unrelated

vsunconnected

94 3.5

Not connected to the topic or cause

focuses on general lack of relation rather than specific logical ties

U

unaffiliated

vsunconnected

15 6.6

Not officially connected to any group or organization

is broader and not only about official ties

U

untethered

vsunconnected

5 6.7

Not tied to anything and able to move freely

is about absence of connection or relation without implying freedom

U

unattached

vsunconnected

2 4.2

Not fixed to anything so it can move freely

is about absence of link or relation rather than loose fixing

U

unassociated

vsunconnected

1 4.9

Not connected or related to something else, like two separate events

is the same idea but uses different common wording

U

unallied

vsunconnected

1 7.7

Not part of any group, country, or alliance

is more general and not limited to groups or alliances

U

uncoupled

vsunconnected

1 4.9

Not joined to something it was attached to before

does not emphasize prior joining or separation timing

D

disconnected

vsunconnected

1 2.9

Not attached to a power outlet

is broader, applying to any lack of connection not only power

U

unjoined

vsunconnected

5.4

Not connected to another thing, like a beam or wire

is more general and not limited to physical joining

U

unlinked

vsunconnected

4.4

Not connected to something else, for example a web page you cannot reach from the site

is broader and not specific to hyperlink contexts

D

disjoined

vsunconnected

7.1

Separated so parts are not connected anymore

does not stress that the connection was undone earlier

D

disjunct

vsunconnected

8.7

Not connected or joined, so parts seem separate

is the general state lacking connection rather than stressing usual joining

U

unanchored

vsunconnected

6.4

Not attached or held in place so it can move

is about absence of connection rather than missing anchoring

U

untethered from

vsunconnected

7.0

Free from any tie and able to move or act freely

focuses on lack of physical securing rather than general relation

U

unconverged

vsunconnected

8.1

Not joined together and still separate

is broader and not only about failing to meet or gather

N

nonassociation

vsunconnected

7.4

Not being connected with people or groups

expresses the same idea but as an adjective for things

Antonyms

C

connected

2.5

Joined physically, like rooms that touch, or linked by a shared feeling

J

joined

1.9

Connected so they form one longer object

How Connected

joined

1.9

connected

2.5

linked

2.1

unconnected

3 3.9

detached

2 4.3

separate

829 2.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology