Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. lacking orderly continuity;
- Example: "a confused set of instructions"
- Example: "a confused dream about the end of the world"
- Example: "disconnected fragments of a story"
- Example: "scattered thoughts"
[syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected]
2. taken apart at the joints;
- Example: "a disjointed fowl"
3. separated at the joint;
- Example: "a dislocated knee"
- Example: "a separated shoulder"
[syn: disjointed, dislocated, separated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disjointed \Dis*joint"ed\, a. Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster] Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame? --Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice. [1913 Webster] Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 3. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "disjointed": aimless, alienated, confused, detached, directionless, disarranged, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjunct, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, dispersed, displaced, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, fitful, inchoate, incoherent, isolated, jumbled, loose, mixed up, muddled, out, out of gear, out of joint, rambling, removed, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered, shut off, split up, unconnected, unhinged, unjointed, unorganized

