disjointed
Disjointed isn’t when you can bend your thumb all the way backwards — that’s double-jointed. Disjointed means "unorganized" or "disconnected."
Disjointed is an adjective that describes something as disconnected, illogical, or just messed up. A disjointed argument is an argument that doesn’t make a lot of sense. The same can be said for a disjointed sentence or a disjointed speech. In a medical sense, disjointed means "dislocated," or “separated at the joint.” When someone gets injured, they may end up with a disjointed shoulder or a disjointed hip.
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taken apart at the joints“a disjointed fowl”
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Synonyms:
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divided
separated into parts or pieces
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divided
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separated at the joint
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synonyms:
dislocated, separated
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injured
harmed
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injured
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lacking orderly continuity
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synonyms:
confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected
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incoherent
without logical or meaningful connection
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incoherent
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During World War II, a Lithuanian girl named Lina is detained by Soviet soldiers and taken to a work camp in Siberia, where she must fight to survive.
The traumatic separation of fraternal twins in India is at the heart of Arundhati Roy's "God of a Small Things" which addresses communism and the Indian caste system while recounting the lives of the twins both together and apart.
A series of linked stories explores the lifelong effects of trauma on a platoon of soldiers during and after the Vietnam War.
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