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Definition of disjoint:
- Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.
- Disjointed; unconnected; - opposed to conjoint.
- To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.
- To fall in pieces.
- To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice.
- 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.
Synonyms:
jumble, dislocate, scramble, dissever, muss, sunder, unyoke, disarrange, disconnect, disjoin, disarticulate, disturb, decouple, tumble, uncouple, detach, break up, sever, shuffle, ramify, hash, part, disorganize, mix, divide, dishevel, tousle, upset, dissociate, assemble, split up, set at odds, rumple, break, divorce, disunite, derange, unlink, separate, disassociate, confuse, discompose, mess, resolve, disarray, part company, muddle, disrupt.
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extraneous (part of speech: adjective)
- foreign,
- inappropriate,
- inadmissible,
- outer,
- extraterrestrial,
- eerie,
- nonessential,
- exotic,
- estranged,
- separated,
- foreign-born,
- extrinsic,
- disconnected,
- outlandish,
- strange,
- unaffiliated,
- immaterial,
- other,
- alien,
- impertinent,
- detached,
- parenthetical,
- outside,
- removed,
- segregated,
- inapplicable,
- separate,
- external,
- unessential,
- unallied,
- dissociated,
- extraneous,
- irrelevant,
- unrelated,
- disaffiliated
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disjoint (part of speech: adjective)
- divided,
- broken,
- fissured,
- disengaged,
- disintegrated,
- sundered,
- segregated,
- partitioned,
- uncoupled,
- bisected,
- unhinged,
- cut,
- disconnected,
- split,
- disarticulated,
- unfixed,
- disassembled,
- fragmented,
- severed,
- cleaved,
- halved,
- detached,
- scissored,
- dismantled,
- unglued,
- disunited,
- divorced,
- dissected,
- sliced,
- dissociated,
- rent,
- disassociated,
- incised,
- separated,
- parted,
- excised
- scattered (part of speech: adjective)
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separate (part of speech: adjective)
- disintegrated,
- disassembled,
- sundered,
- separate,
- individual,
- autonomous,
- distinct,
- alienated,
- disconnected,
- dissociated,
- unglued,
- independent,
- fragmentary,
- detached,
- unrelated,
- severed,
- unaffiliated,
- disaffiliated
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unrelated (part of speech: adjective)
- remote,
- segregated,
- alien,
- disenfranchised,
- inapplicable,
- detached,
- irrelevant,
- foreign,
- dissociated,
- unaffiliated,
- extraneous,
- unallied,
- unrelated,
- separate
Usage examples:
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Macbeth says: " But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly."
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It is not in my power to disjoint my nature and reconstruct it with iron!
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The Frenchmen hesitated; the talisman might affect them, they said; might jangle their own brains, so that on their return to Russia they would not have the sagacity to plan an escape to their own country; might disjoint their bodies, so that their feet and hands would be useless, and they would become as weak as children.