disingenuous, adj. insincere, uncandid, unfrank, mealy-mouthed; deceitful, dishonest, underhanded, crooked, tricky, double-tongued; false, false-hearted, double-dealing, two-faced, mendacious, lying, untruthful; artful, insidious, guileful, scheming, plotting, calculating, contriving, designing; cunning, crafty, sly, wily, foxy; shifty, slippery, smooth, slick,
disinherit, v. cut off, cut off without a penny; expropriate, deprive, dispossess, divest; oust, evict, turn out, Inf send out into the storm; disown, repudiate, renounce, turn [s.o.'s] picture to the wall,
disintegrate, v. crumble, fall apart, fall to pieces, go to wrack and ruin, decompose, decay, rot, molder, dissolve, erode; break up, disperse, disband,
disinter, v. 1. exhume, disinhume, dig up, disentomb.
2. unearth, uncover, bring to light, disclose, expose, discover, root out; resurrect, revive, bring back,
disinterested, adj. 1. unbiased, impartial, impersonal, neutral; unprejudiced, open-minded, fair, equitable, just, dispassionate; candid, honest, generous, magnanimous, unselfish.
2. unconcerned, detached, aloof, uninterested, lukewarm.
disjoin, v. separate, divorce, detach, dissociate, segregate, isolate, abstract; disunite, disconnect, uncouple, disentangle, disengage; dismember, dissect, anatomize, disjoint; sever, dissever, sunder, rend, tear, rive, split, break; divide, partition, break up, split up, interrupt, disrupt.
disjoint, v. 1. dislocate, displace, throw out; dismember, dissect, anatomize; disconnect, dissociate, separate, uncouple. See - disjoin and
anatomize (def. 1).
2. part, come apart, break in two, fall apart, disintegrate.
3. derange, disarrange, disorder, put out of order, disorganize; disarray, unsettle, disturb, discompose.
disjointed, adj. 1. dislocated, displaced, thrown out; dismembered, dissected, skeletonized, vivisected, cut apart or up, pulled apart, in pieces; separated, separate, disconnected, divided, disunited, disjunct; split, severed, cleft, torn apart, rent, asunder.
2. incoherent, noncohesive, ununified, without unity; loose, unconnected, broken, choppy, discontinuous, unsmooth; rambling, wandering, aimless, directionless; disorganized, disordered, disorderly, out of order,
disjunction, n. separation, disseverance, dissever-ment, disseveration, disconnection, detachment, division, disjuncture; severance, cleavage, cleft, breach, rent, split, break, breakage, fracture, crack; disunion, disunity, noncohesion, noncohesiveness, disassocia-tion, dissociating, divorce, disengagement; incoherence, incoherency, looseness, brokenness, discontinuity, choppiness,
disjunctive, adj. 1. separating, dividing, disconnective, dissociative, disjoining.
2. distinguishing, discriminative, discriminating, distinctive, differentiating, differential, diacritical,
disk, n. 1. disc, plate, Mil. sabot, flan; circle, Archaic. orb, face, roundel; ring, discus, quoit.
2. phonograph record, record, recording, wax.
dislike, v. 1. regard with displeasure, mislike, disrelish, disfavor, disesteem; hold as disagreeable, feel repugnance toward, not be able to bear or abide, SI. get turned off by, be disinclined toward, shrink from, recoil from; turn up the nose at, object to, mind; have no stomach or use or taste for, not be able to stomach. 2. feel hostility toward, antipathize; feel or bear malice toward, hold or bear a grudge against; have an aversion to, hate, despise, detest, loathe, abominate, execrate, abhor.