unconnectedadj.
/ˌʌnkəˈnɛktᵻd/, /ˌʌŋkəˈnɛktᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənkəˈnɛktəd/ 1. elliptical.1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 49 This is no unconnected misery, Nor stands uncaused, and irretrievable.
a. Not connected or associated with something.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [adjective] > with, in, or to something
irrelative1640
unallied1663
unconnected1736
uninvolved1793
unimplicated1822
unimplicate1869
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 13 There would be no Apprehension, that any other Power or Event unconnected with this of Death, would destroy these Faculties.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 471 The colony of New Haven, though unconnected with the colony of Connecticut.
1842 A. Sedgwick in Hudson's Guide Lakes (1843) 191 We find..great masses of alluvial drift, entirely unconnected with any erosion of the existing rivers.
1885 Law Times 10 Jan. 183/1 A surveyor..who is entirely unconnected with the neighbourhood.
b. Not physically joined with something.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > not joined, united, or connected
uncoupled1377
unjoined1538
unclosed1551
unknitting1587
ununited1587
unknit1603
incommunicated1646
discontiguous1656
incontiguous1660
open1686
inconnected1742
disconnected1751
incoherent1768
uncemented1783
unconnected1829
disaffiliated1839
disconnect1845
inarticulate1852
unarticulated1861
ununified1862
1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 150 The flowers have upwards of twenty-five stamens, all unconnected with the calyx.
2. Characterized by want of connection.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [adjective]
frenne1556
unlinked1587
untouching1602
positive1609
unrespectless1614
unrelating1655
inconnexive1660
unaccessory1664
unconcerned1668
extraneous1671
unrelative1700
unkindred1701
unrelated1701
unconnected1745
irrelate1845
unrelational1863
unakin1864
inconsequent1869
relationless1878
irrelated1886
disrelated1893
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > not joined, united, or connected > characterized by want of connection
unconnected1745
1745 Hume Let. from Gentleman (1967) 32 Suppose Mankind, in some primitive unconnected State [etc.].
1762 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) V. 250 His epistles,..translated in a very bad style, and unconnected method.
1816 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. (ed. 3) I. ii. ix. 193 As the fashionable mode of unconnected composition is less improving to the mind of the reader.
1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 249 His buildings are disposed in an unconnected manner about a quadrangular court.
3. Not joined together in order or sequence; disunited, isolated.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [adjective] > not consecutive
unconnected1777
inconsecutive1837
1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. 1925 Incongruous, unconnected speech.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1750 I. 110 Addison's note was a fiction, in which unconnected fragments of his lucubrations were purposely jumbled together.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 9 These short and unconnected sentences are easily and instantly understood.
1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 55 I simply record unconnected anecdotes and disjointed facts.
4. Not having personal connections; not related by family ties, common aims, etc.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [adjective] > lacking personal connection
unconnected1801
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 183 An individual in society, who has friends..and a home, is in a more desirable situation, than an unconnected being.
1822 Ld. Byron Werner iv. i. 516 I could only guess at one, And he to me a stranger, unconnected.
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. I. 40 But without this..what would become of the vapid, unmeaning, unconnected Lady P——?
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