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Disjointed   /dɪsdʒˈɔɪntɪd/   Listen
Disjointed

adjective
1.
Lacking orderly continuity.  Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected.  "A confused dream about the end of the world" , "Disconnected fragments of a story" , "Scattered thoughts"
2.
Taken apart at the joints.
3.
Separated at the joint.  Synonyms: dislocated, separated.  "A separated shoulder"



Disjoint

verb
(past & past part. disjointed; pres. part. disjointing)
1.
Part; cease or break association with.  Synonyms: disassociate, dissociate, disunite, divorce.
2.
Separate at the joints.  Synonym: disarticulate.
3.
Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of.  Synonym: disjoin.  Antonym: join.
4.
Become separated, disconnected or disjoint.  Synonym: disjoin.  Antonym: join.



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"Disjointed" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself with luxury any more than he should be permitted to cut off his right hand. Excuse me for being didactic—but you said you'd like to get my point of view and I've tried to give it to you in a disjointed sort of way. I'd sooner my son would have to work for his living than not, and I'd rather he'd spend his life contending with the forces of nature and developing the country than in quarreling over the division of profits that other men ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train

... concerning psychological marriages, but the appearance of the huge body beneath the bed-clothes restrained her: he wished to say something nice and kind, but Laura's presence put everything out of his head, and so his ideas became more than ever broken and disjointed, his thoughts wandered, until at last, lifting his eyes from the manuscript ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore

... gritty dust that settles in the nostrils and on the lips, the very residuum of all that is repulsive in the greatest city of the world. The noise of the traffic and the constant pressure from the crowds passing, their incessant and disjointed talk, could not distract me. One moment at least I had, a moment when I thought of the push of the great sea forcing the water to flow under the feet of these crowds, the distant sea strong and splendid; when I saw the sunlight gleam on the tidal wavelets; when I felt the wind, ...
— The Story of My Heart • Richard Jefferies

... early and immature time of his life, Willard Glazier had thought much upon this subject—examples of the disjointed successes of all unplanned and unmethodical careers having been brought too frequently into close proximity to his own door, not to have made an impression ...
— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens

... the remotest provinces, it became enriched by a variety of exotic words and idioms, which, under the influence of the Court and of poetic culture, if I may so express myself, was gradually blended, like some finished mosaic made up of coarse and disjointed materials, into one harmonious whole. The Quichua became the most comprehensive and various, as well as the most elegant, of ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott


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