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Disconnected vs Unconnected - What's the difference?

disconnected | unconnected |

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)
  • (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

    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.