adj ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Not connected, coherent, or continuous. figuratively

   "The hours of his illness were disjointed and confusing as he drifted in and out of consciousness."

2. 2
   Having the paws and head (but not the tail) detached from the body.

   "a lion disjointed"

Adjective

1. 1
   lacking orderly continuity wordnet
2. 2
   separated at the joint wordnet
3. 3
   taken apart at the joints wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

disconnecteddividedaimlessalienatedbrokenconfused

Antonyms

All antonyms

coherent

Example

More examples

"Even his everyday speech was an off-the-cuff, tangential, disjointed narrative."

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