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Conflicting vs Unconnected - What's the difference?

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Conflicting is a related term of unconnected.


As adjectives the difference between conflicting and unconnected

is that conflicting is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome while unconnected is not connected or joined.

As a verb conflicting

is .

conflicting

English

(Webster 1828)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
  • Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
  • In the absence of all conflicting evidence.
  • * 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
  • *:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
  • * 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73
  • *:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
  • Verb

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  • References

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    unconnected

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • not connected or joined
  • The light wouldn't work because the cable was unconnected .
  • confused or disconnected
  • He talked in an unconnected series of short sentences.