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Definition of Disordered
1. Adjective. Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion. "With everything so upset"
2. Adjective. Lacking orderly continuity. "Scattered thoughts"
Similar to: Incoherent
Derivative terms: Disconnectedness, Disjointedness, Illogicalness
3. Adjective. Not arranged in order.
Definition of Disordered
1. a. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.
Definition of Disordered
1. Verb. (past of disorder) ¹
2. Adjective. Chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder. ¹
3. Adjective. Deranged. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disordered
1. disorder [v] - See also: disorder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disordered
Literary usage of Disordered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"Of disordered or alienated sensations. Beginning with the External ... It is well
known that all the outward senses are liable to be disordered, and, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1858)
"When, along with the ordinary accompaniments of disordered hepatic function, such
as more or less yellowness of skin or urine, gastric and intestinal ..."
3. Obscure diseases of the brain and mind by Forbes Benignus Winslow (1866)
"of memory after acute bodily disease— Effects of paralysis on the memory—Loss,
of certain words, Ac.—Remarkable cases of disordered memory—Effect of a ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1856)
"disordered statet of the lacrymal secretion. The secretion of the lacrymal gland
may be suppressed, or, on the contrary, it may be poured out in too great ..."