Disconnected vs Unconnected - What's the difference?
disconnected | unconnected |
(disconnect)
That is no longer connected.
Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
(mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
not connected or joined
confused or disconnected
As adjectives the difference between disconnected and unconnected
is that disconnected is that is no longer connected while unconnected is not connected or joined.As a verb disconnected
is past tense of disconnect.disconnected
English
Verb
(head)- The phone company disconnected my DSL.
Adjective
(en adjective)- There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
- I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.
Antonyms
* connectedDerived terms
* disconnectedly * disconnectednessunconnected
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The light wouldn't work because the cable was unconnected .
- He talked in an unconnected series of short sentences.