untogether

English

Etymology

From un- + together.

Adjective

untogether (comparative more untogether, superlative most untogether)

  1. Not together; separated; alone.
  2. (informal) Not together; disorganised; sloppy.
    • 2005, H. D. Adamson, Language Minority Students in American Schools:
      This here little Sister name Mae was most definitely untogether.
    • 2006, John Kevin Young, Black Writers, White Publishers:
      "[...] Works, which will assist these backward, untogether niggers [sic] in getting themselves together".

Adverb

untogether (comparative more untogether, superlative most untogether)

  1. In an untogether or disorderly manner; apart.
    • 2006, John Kevin Young, Black Writers, White Publishers:
      Just as Hinckle terms the dispersed text of Jes Grew “Untogether,” [...]

Noun

untogether (uncountable)

  1. (attributive) That which is untogether.
    • 2007, Gordon Marino, Basic Writings of Existentialism:
      We characterize the together, or the untogether based on it, as a rum. The untogether belonging to such a mode of the together, lacking as something outstanding, can, however, by no means ontologically define the not-yet that belongs to Da-sein as its possible death.
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