Meaning & use
Disjointed
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Lacking order, coherence, or logical connection.
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The speech felt disjointed, jumping from topic to topic without warning.
His disjointed notes made it hard to follow the argument.
A note on using this word
Literally means 'having the joints separated', a meaning that survives figuratively in describing fragmented speech or writing.
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incoherentdisconnected
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