disconnect

1. 1.

   an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

   “he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends”

   “there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy”

   Synonymsgulfdisconnection

   Broaderdisparity

Other forms of disconnect

plural

disconnects·

past tense

disconnected·

present participle

disconnecting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disconnect

What does disconnect mean?

disconnect means "pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disconnect?

disconnect has 3 syllables: di-scon-nect. The stress falls on "nect". In IPA it is /dɪskəˈnɛkt/.

What is another word for disconnect?

Close synonyms include unplug, gulf, disconnection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disconnect?

The recorded antonyms are connect.

Is disconnect a common word?

disconnect is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disconnect?

3 words rhyme with disconnect. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.