Unconnected
[ʌnkə'nektɪd] or [,ʌnkə'nɛktɪd]
Definition
(adj.) not joined or linked together .
(adj.) not connected by birth or family .
Editor: Pasquale--From WordNet
Definition
adj. not connected separate: not coherent rambling vague: without connections of family &c.
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Examples
- This consideration was entirely unconnected with Sir Percival. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She was safe; but peace and safety were unconnected here. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Scattered and unconnected as they were, I have been obliged to add links, and model the work into a consistent form. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He existed a pure, unconnected will, stoical and momentaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- William was gone, and she now felt as if she had wasted half his visit in idle cares and selfish solicitudes unconnected with him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is a motive quite unconnected with the case which I am conducting here. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He did not appear in spirits: something unconnected with her was probably amiss. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- An uneasiness stole over him that was like a touch of shame; and when he spoke, as he presently did, it was in an unconnected and embarrassed manner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Its function of introducing connection into what is otherwise unconnected constitutes its generality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure, unconnected with his general powers. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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