Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
off-line \off-line\ adj.
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(Computers) Not connected; -- of computers or computer peripherals normally connected or intended to be connected to other computers by a communications line; as, we can't print the document because the printer is off-line. [Narrower terms: disconnected, not ready, off; unconnected ] {on-line
Syn: offline, off line(predicate).
Hence: (fig.) Outside of or after a meeting or formal discussion; as, we can discuss the details off-line; -- a term used at meetings and conferences to suggest postponing detailed discussion of a topic so as not to occupy the time of a large group most of whom may not be interested.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 not connected or joined 2 confused or disconnected
WordNet
adj. having had the relation broken [syn: dissociated]
not joined or linked together [ant: connected]
not connected by birth or family [syn: not kin(p)]
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, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered]
Usage examples of "unconnected".
Paris Miss Marling has persistently encouraged the advances of a certain French gentleman not unconnected with her family, and has upon every occasion preferred his company to mine, you will hardly assure me that her affections are unchanged.
Khalid Shaikh may well have been the biggest unconnected dot on the chart.
The silverites in Congress were reenforced by representatives from new States in the far West, the admission of which had not been unconnected with political exigencies on the part of the Republican party.
This is no unconnected misery, Nor stands uncaused, and irretrievable.
Marshal Bernadotte, who had the command of the French troops in Hanover, kept up a friendly correspondence with me unconnected with the duties of our respective functions.
Marshall Brune was at Bremen only for the execution of the decree respecting the blockade of England, and that he ought not to interfere in business unconnected with that decree.
All the respectable inhabitants who were unconnected with the tumult likewise returned to their homes, and no person appeared out of doors.
I replied that, having lived for three years as a private individual, unconnected with public affairs, I should have no influence at the headquarters of the Allies, and that whatever little ability I might be supposed to possess, that would not counterbalance the difficulties of my situation, and the opinion that I was out of favour.
At that moment my eyes were fixed on the young Prince, and the interest with which he inspired me was equally unconnected with the splendour which surrounded and the misfortunes which threatened him.
The last time Napoleon spoke, except to utter a few short unconnected words, was on the 3d of May.
But Thorby was aware that Pop had activities unconnected with begging.
The two white girls, in Brussels and Amsterdam, are unconnected victims.
A number of local doctors, unconnected with the medical school, were severe in their criticisms of him.
Earlier in the evening, Middleton had squandered a two-goal lead, and it seemed only fair that other people, however unconnected and remote from Middleton, should also be made to suffer.
The reader will notice that in the Carta da Navigare the Tierra Del Fuego is set down as an island, and is therefore unconnected with any South Polar continent.