Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no joints, nodes, or articulations; inarticulate.
- Unjoined; disjointed; disconnected.
- Unhinged; out of joint; disarticulated; luxated or dislocated, as a joint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent.
- adjective Having no joint or articulation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
jointed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without joints or jointed segments
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Examples
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When altering speeds or performing other techniques such as walking the dog, I prefer an unjointed lure as it will interfere with the specialized actions.
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When altering speeds or performing other techniques such as walking the dog, I prefer an unjointed lure as it will interfere with the specialized actions.
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A starter of tandoori chicken wings brought a bunch of pallid, unjointed wings which were just undercooked, the skin barely crisp.
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When this happens, President will rock, unjointed, a solid block of plastic, and stop.
Veracity LAURA BYNUM 2010
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A pair of prolegs (unjointed legs) is found on each of the abdominal segments 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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To others again he unjointed the spondyles or knuckles of the neck, disfigured their chaps, gashed their faces, made their cheeks hang flapping on their chin, and so swinged and balammed them that they fell down before him like hay before a mower.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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To others again he unjointed the spondyles or knuckles of the neck, disfigured their chaps, gashed their faces, made their cheeks hang flapping on their chin, and so swinged and balammed them that they fell down before him like hay before a mower.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Its legs were as straight as tree trunks; its fingers and toes unjointed stubs.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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He started with Pickle Raines, a scrap of a freckled girl wearing red pajamas, sitting with her legs stuck out straight in front of her like an unjointed doll.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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Down there, invisible at this height, were spiky dry plants with water stored in their cores; flowers that bloomed after a rain and left their seeds to wait a year or ten years for the next rainfall; insect-things with four legs, unjointed; skinny warm-blooded quadrupeds from the size of a fox on down, who were always hungry.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969
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