UNCONNECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unconnected mean? 

• UNCONNECTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNCONNECTED has 3 senses:

1. not joined or linked together

2. not connected by birth or family

3. lacking orderly continuity

  Familiarity information: UNCONNECTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCONNECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not joined or linked together

Similar:

apart; isolated; obscure (remote and separate physically or socially)

asternal (not connected to the sternum or breastbone)

detached; separated (no longer connected or joined)

disjoined; separate (have the connection undone; having become separate)

exploded (showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another)

unattached (not fastened together)

uncoupled (having the coupling undone)

Also:

unrelated (lacking a logical or causal relation)

Attribute:

connectedness; connection; connexion (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))

Antonym:

connected (joined or linked together)

Derivation:

unconnectedness (the lack of a connection between things)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not connected by birth or family

Similar:

unrelated (not connected by kinship)

Derivation:

unconnectedness (the lack of a connection between things)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lacking orderly continuity

Synonyms:

confused; disconnected; disjointed; disordered; garbled; illogical; scattered; unconnected

Context example:

scattered thoughts

Similar:

incoherent (without logical or meaningful connection)

 Context examples 

She was safe; but peace and safety were unconnected here.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure, unconnected with his general powers.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I thought you were speaking of some man of property: Mr Wentworth was nobody, I remember; quite unconnected; nothing to do with the Strafford family.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

For a time each blow brought a yelp from him; but fear passed into terror, until finally his yelps were voiced in unbroken succession, unconnected with the rhythm of the punishment.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was necessary to the happiness of both; for however dissimilar in temper and outward behaviour, they strongly resembled each other in that total want of talent and taste which confined their employments, unconnected with such as society produced, within a very narrow compass.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband's death, by any tie?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He did not appear in spirits: something unconnected with her was probably amiss.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And a very well-spoken, genteel, shrewd lady, she seemed to be, continued he; asked more questions about the house, and terms, and taxes, than the Admiral himself, and seemed more conversant with business; and moreover, Sir Walter, I found she was not quite unconnected in this country, any more than her husband; that is to say, she is sister to a gentleman who did live amongst us once; she told me so herself: sister to the gentleman who lived a few years back at Monkford.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You may readily comprehend, she added, what my curiosity must be to know how a person unconnected with any of us, and (comparatively speaking) a stranger to our family, should have been amongst you at such a time.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)