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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disjointed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Rambling, disjointed notes found in Brady's apartment gave no clues as to his disappearance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As soon as the rhythmic motion of the cart began Willie fell into a disjointed sleep.
▪ Death from unfamiliar diseases turned the world into a disjointed and meaningless place.
▪ It all seemed disjointed and unreal to Donaldson, as if his world had suddenly taken a lurching sideways step.
▪ She had a disjointed upbringing with a series of tutors.
▪ The period saw in most Western countries a series of intermittent and disjointed efforts to remedy this state of affairs.
▪ The two elements need to be understood as distinct and often disjointed moments of state policy.
▪ This takes a disjointed groove system to the right of the centre of the crag.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disjointed

Disjoint \Dis*joint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disjointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disjointing.]

  1. To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.

    Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?
    --Prior.

  2. To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice.

    Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall.
    --Longfellow.

  3. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

Disjointed

Disjointed \Dis*joint"ed\, a. Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disjointed

1640s, past participle adjective from disjoint (mid-15c.), from Old French desjoindre, from Latin disiungere, from dis- (see dis-) + iungere (see jugular).

Wiktionary
disjointed

a. (context figuratively English) Not connected, coherent, or continuous.

WordNet
disjointed

  1. adj. lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected]

  2. taken apart at the joints; "a disjointed fowl"

  3. separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder" [syn: dislocated, separated]

Usage examples of "disjointed".

The Khesatan, oblivious of the corpse at his feet, was holding Beka in a tight embrace and murmuring disjointed phrases under his breath.

True to his service, the agent uttered disjointed sentences - his recollections of the statements which Birdy Zelker had made when cornered.

Remo said when the Cajun had retrieved enough of his disjointed wits to understand the spoken word.

The current city manager was an excessively tall, slender, disjointed sort of man.

At first it appeared only like a succession of disjointed, broken stones, lying in straggly fashion along the footwall of the drift where it widened into the stope, or upward slant on the vein.

When thrown on their own resources, they are so demoralised by ages of dependence on the brain, that they die after a few efforts at self-assertion, from sheer unfamiliarity with the position, and inability to recognise themselves when disjointed rudely from their habitual associations.

He was looking forward to it as he drifted into sleep, his thoughts fragmenting and scattering into disjointed nonsense.

Unable to appose, the disjointed segments fell free, and she flung them off into the darkness.

Both men whirled, and there it was: a disjointed, chitinous, crablike hulk.

The asterisked line breaks set apart points which, because of removed context, now appear as disjointed bits (or passages) of teaching.

Knees drawn up she pulled the towel round her bared shoulders and a shiver sent breath through her, staring at that page till she seized the pencil to draw it heavily through his still, sinewed hands, hard irregular features, the cool disinterested calm of his eyes and a bare moment's pause bearing down with the pencil on his hands, disjointed, rust spotted, his crumbled features dulled and worn as the bill collector he might have been mistaken for, the desolate loss in his eyes belying, belying.

But during the course of dinner she gathered from some disjointed remarks of his that he and Bibbs had lunched together at the small restaurant where it had been Sheridan's custom to lunch with Jim, and she took this to be an encouraging sign.

Why they'd take the clothes and leave the shoes was a question Ty probably couldn't have answered even had he not been wearing the cap (sbecial toyz for sbecial boyz), but a disjointed phrase popped into his head: custom of the country.

But they would find enough classicism at Ansbach, he promised them, and he entered with sympathetic intelligence into their wish to see this former capital when March told him they were going to stop there, in hopes of something typical of the old disjointed Germany of the petty principalities, the little paternal despotisms now extinct.

Her pace, therefore, is an odd, disjointed and disjoining, sort of movement that is rather disagreeable at first, but you soon grow reconciled to it.