disconnected

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪskəˈnɛktəd/

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Verb

disconnected

1. simple past and past participle of disconnect

   The phone company disconnected my DSL.

Adjective

disconnected (comparative more disconnected, superlative most disconnected)

1. That is no longer connected.

   There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.

2. Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.

   I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.

3. Incoherent; disjointed.
4. (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.

Antonyms

• connected

Derived terms

• disconnectedly
• disconnectedness
• totally disconnected (mathematics)
• undisconnected

Translations

that is no longer connected

Bulgarian: откъснат (bg) (otkǎsnat), изключен (izključen) Finnish: irtikytketty, irrotettu (fi), irronnut (fi) French: déconnecté (fr) Hebrew: מנותק \ מְנֻתָּק (m'nuták) Hindi: असंबद्ध (hi) (asambaddh), अजोड़ (hi) (ajoṛ), अयुक्त (hi) (ayukt), निरन्वय (hi) (niranvay), विलग (hi) (vilag), अलग (hi) (alag), अनमेल (hi) (anmel) Maori: tupurangi, nakunaku Polish: odłączony Romanian: deconectat, decuplat Spanish: desconectado (es)

feeling a lack of empathy or association with something

Bulgarian: несвързан (bg) (nesvǎrzan) Finnish: etäinen (fi) Polish: oddalony (pl)

math: not connected

Dutch: onsamenhangend (nl) Italian: sconnesso (it) m Polish: niespójny (pl)