disjointedadj.
1. Separated joint from joint; disjoined, separated; disconnected.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > disjoined, disunited, or disconnected
disjointc1420
sejointc1440
dissolute?1541
unjointed1561
disunited1562
disjoined1591
disjunct1599
disjointeda1643
disunite1642
disjuncted1657
unmortised1736
broken1819
disarticulated1834
disc1916
a1643 G. Sandys Paraphr. Job 45 (T.) Be..their disjointed bones to powder ground.
a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. vi. 72 Consider..the disjointed disposition of the bones.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 362 I saw a-drift disjointed Planks.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 12/1 Disjoynted and unfinished Members.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 379 That the construction be made upon the entire deed, and not merely upon disjointed parts of it.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 191 Some of these [casks] are kept in a disjointed state..ready to be put together.
1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxvii. 147 A little disjointed gipsy encampment of mud-built tents.
2. Consisting of separated or ill-connected parts; disconnected.
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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective]
misshapena1400
deformedc1400
forshapenc1440
misfashioned?a1513
inform1555
fromshapen1581
misformed1590
informous1610
disjointed1652
ill-formeda1672
abnormous1710
malformed1817
dislocated1830
aberrated1976
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Kkk3 A dis-joynted people not under any setled form of Government.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. x. 258 He felt already..that he was the head of a disjointed body.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 188 The huge frame of the Persian empire was disjointed and unwieldy.
3. Of words or a discourse: Without proper connection or sequence; disconnected; incoherent.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > disconnected
unjointed1588
disjointed1593
checkie-wise1603
rambling1632
loose1638
unconnexed1716
disconnected1777
snipped1806
dot and go one1818
spasmodic1832
spotty1843
snippety1864
rantipole1866
splathering1929
1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia 124 The constancy of your wit was not wont to bring forth such disjointed speeches.
1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. [v] 30 Vpon such broken disioincted surmises.
1817 Ld. Dudley Let. 3 June (1840) 169 His argument..seems loose and disjointed.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xiii Our conversation dropped into broken disjointed sentences.
Derivatives
disˈjointedly adv.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb] > disconnectedly
disjointly1621
ramblinglya1641
unconnectedly1778
disconnectedly1807
disjointedly1869
zigzaggedly1921
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xii. 117 We talked disjointedly.
1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. xi. 19 I must pass, disjointedly, to matters, which, in a written letter, would have been put in a postscript.
disˈjointedness n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > disjunction, disunion, or disconnection > quality
disjointedness1655
unconnectedness1772
unconnectiona1834
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] > disconnectedness
inconnection1620
disjointedness1655
desultoriness1661
unconnection1766
disconnection1815
disconnectedness1823
snippetiness1878
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 494 The disorders and disjoyntedness of his discourse.
1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 134 You remark in all their Actions..a Disjointedness.
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