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Divided vs Disconnected - What's the difference?

divided | disconnected |

As verbs the difference between divided and disconnected

is that divided is (divide) while disconnected is (disconnect).

As adjectives the difference between divided and disconnected

is that divided is separated or split into pieces while disconnected is that is no longer connected.

divided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (divide)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • separated or split into pieces
  • having conflicting interests or emotions
  • disunited
  • (US) (of a road ) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
  • Antonyms

    * undivided * combined * unified

    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