unplugged
/ʌnˈplʌɡd
/adjective
1 trademark (Of pop or rock music) performed or recorded with acoustic rather than electrically amplified instruments: Rod Stewart’s acoustic set spawned an unplugged album that sold three million copies...
- All the bands bring forth a unique combination of intelligent music fused with the unplugged sound of the acoustic guitar as well as the often edgy riffs that are the underground rock band's signature sound.
- Featuring loads of bands playing unplugged acoustic instruments.
- Ono undoubtedly wanted to reveal the beneficial aspects of unplugged performance that Lennon would have most likely thrived within.
2(Of an electrical device) disconnected: an unplugged fridge...
- He can even call an unplugged phone.
- If it weren't for the little red lights, I'd have figured the rear speakers were unplugged.
- Are machines with moving parts unplugged?
2.1Not using any electrical or electronic devices: he wondered what it would be like to live a more unplugged life the kids freaked when I told them we were going unplugged for the next month...
- As TV zoomed into the electronic age, he stayed unplugged, logging 50,000 miles a year in his mobile home-office.
- It's an amazingly odd feeling to go "unplugged" after years of having a computer attached to my hip.
- Every moment a reader spends unplugged from the wired world and immersed in internal dialog with an author is experienced as commercial drain.
- out of one's tree
- out of one's way
- out of (or beyond) reach
- out of order
- out of place
- out of plumb
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