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Disconnected vs Disconcerted - What's the difference?

disconnected | disconcerted |

As verbs the difference between disconnected and disconcerted

is that disconnected is (disconnect) while disconcerted is .

As adjectives the difference between disconnected and disconcerted

is that disconnected is that is no longer connected while disconcerted is ruffled, upset and embarrassed.

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

    disconcerted

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ruffled, upset and embarrassed
  • Self-consciously distressed
  • Frustrated and disarranged