disjoined 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of disjoinednext
as in divided

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disjoined

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verb

past tense of disjoin
as in separated
to set or force apart disjoined the two drinking glasses, which were stuck together, only with the greatest difficulty

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disjoined
  1. divided
  2. separated
  3. disconnected
  4. split
  5. parted
  6. discontinuous
Adjective
  • The two parties are most starkly divided now on cultural issues rather than on the economic lines that once separated left from right, making a centrist compromise to produce policy solutions seem less and less important.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Yet global business leaders remain divided on the topic.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of divided
Verb
  • Data held in qubits is affected by data held in other qubits, even when physically separated.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Once the ladies are separated, Jackie pulls Heavenly aside to scold her for her behavior.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of separated
Verb
  • In fact, lots of people are feeling distanced or disconnected, and want to know how to start a friend group.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Traditional metrics, like closing all service tickets or hitting sales quotas, often feel like top-down mandates disconnected from employees’ intrinsic motivations.
    Rasmus Holst, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of disconnected
Verb
  • That amount would be split between border security, such as wall funding and money for Border Patrol agents, and modernizing U.S. defense systems.
    Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Jan. 2025
  • One Pacific Palisades home that survived the Palisades Fire was later split in half by a landslide, CBS News Los Angeles' Rick Montanez reported.
    Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of split
Adjective
  • In a lively celebration of whiskers and wit, a man dressed as Moses stands on stage, holding the Ten Commandments before a sea of parted beards and mustaches inside Detroit's historic Masonic Temple.
    David Rodriguez Muñoz, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Feldman’s attorneys said that’s when Wheeler gave him the tools and the two parted ways, but prosecutors said Feldman got into Wheeler’s Honda Accord, leaving his own phone behind in his car.
    Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
Definition of parted
Adjective
  • As President-elect Trump approaches the second half of his discontinuous presidency, Americans seem cool to his signature economic proposal: steep new tariffs on America’s most important trading partners.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • About 19,000 people had to flee the city, which is in an area with discontinuous permafrost.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of discontinuous
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