Word Meanings - DISJOINTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISJOINTED)

• Ambagious
• Tortuous
• indirect
• anfractuous
• circumlocutory
• circuitous
• periphrastic
• ambiguous
• unintelligible
• pointless
• disjointed

Related words: (words related to DISJOINTED)

• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• CIRCUMLOCUTORY
  Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• DISJOINTED
  Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• PERIPHRASTICALLY
  With circumlocution.
• AMBIGUOUS
  Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous,
• AMBIGUOUSNESS
  Ambiguity.
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• INDIRECTLY
  In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.
• TORTUOUS
  Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. Skeat. Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer. --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n. (more info) winding, fr. torquere,
• DISJOINTLY
  In a disjointed state. Sandys.
• PERIPHRASTIC; PERIPHRASTICAL
  Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory. Periphrastic conjugation , a conjugation formed by the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
• INDIRECTED
  Not directed; aimless.
• ANFRACTUOUS
  Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. -- An*frac"tu*ous*ness, n. (more info) winding, fr. the unused anfringere to wind, bend; an-, for amb- +
• AMBAGIOUS
  Circumlocutory; circuitous.
• AMBIGUOUSLY
  In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
• INDIRECT
  Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc. Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners