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Disconnected vs Connected - What's the difference?

disconnected | connected |

Disconnected is an antonym of connected.


As verbs the difference between disconnected and connected

is that disconnected is (disconnect) while connected is (connect).

As adjectives the difference between disconnected and connected

is that disconnected is that is no longer connected while connected is (usually with "well-"): having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.

disconnected

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disconnect)
  • The phone company disconnected my DSL.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That is no longer connected.
  • There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
  • Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
  • I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.
  • (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
  • Antonyms

    * connected

    Derived terms

    * disconnectedly * disconnectedness

    connected

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
  • (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
  • (mathematics, graph theory, of a directed graph) Having a path, either directed]] or undirected, connecting every pair of [[vertex, vertices.
  • Antonyms

    * disconnected

    Verb

    (head)
  • (connect)