connected
: Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
Adjective
- : Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
- Of course, he has very little money, and is rather shy in manner, but he is very well-connected. - 2002, Miss Read, Affairs at Thrush Green: A Novel, →ISBN:
- In human society, there is an irreconcilable conflict between the concept of financial wellbeing of the individual and the pernicious desire for increased wealth of the politically well connected. - 2005, James Ronald...
- Having relationships; involved with others.
- By his father's side Mr Trumbull was connected with one of the most honorable and conspicuous families of his native state. - 1833, the american annual register of public events, for the year 1881-32:
- She is descended, on the father's side, from an ancient family in Northumberland, not remotely connected with nobility ; and there is a quaint rhyme current in the north country, which promises the name a long duration....
- If the relation, however, differs, that is, the claimants be connected respectively through mother and father (notwithstanding equality in degree) the property is divided in the principle of double shares to the...
- Involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.
- It wasn't as though there were groups of kids from mob-connected families who socialized exclusively; in fact, a consequence of growing up in a huge city like New York was that you had several groups of friends, simply...
- Intimate; having bonds of affection.
- We were sitting on his bed and I was doing a lot of mirroring and chatting and just having a very connected conversation. - 2009, Jennifer Kolari, Connected Parenting, →ISBN:
- Once again they became best friends and were very connected to each other emotionally. - 2012, John DeFrain, Getting Connected, Staying Connected: Loving One Another, Day by Day, →ISBN:
- I am very connected to this place because my Aunts are very cool, and my cousins too. - 2012, JOURNAL OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP Vol 22-N1, →ISBN, page 40:
- That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
- As a combinatorial subject, the connected dominating set has been studied in as early as 1970s. - 2012, Ding-Zhu Du, Peng-Jun Wan, Connected Dominating Set: Theory and Applications, →ISBN, page v:
- Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.
- In a connected graph, there is no section (proper subset that includes all edges from each vertex in said subset) of the graph that is isolated from the rest.
- Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking software or a transportation network.
- Connected viewing activities such as streaming movies on Facebook, virtually attending BDLive screening events, or chatting via social media apps about a favorite television show require a significant amount of...
- The objective is to understand and use the effectiveness of such technologies and best practices that proide succssful strategies towards developing a connected government that is more responsive to the needs of the...
- Drawing upon postcolonial and decolonial arguments, I have suggested that modernity does not itself produce a connected world, but is itself a product of interconnections, or importantly, these interconnections are made...
Forms
Synonyms
affiliated allied apposite associated comparative connected important related relative
Antonyms
Hyponyms
cloud-connected hyperconnected hypoconnected Internet-connected Web-connected cognate dependent implicated linked pertinent reciprocal
Derived
autoconnected biconnected connectedly connectedness deconnected diconnected inconnected multiconnected nonconnected overconnected preconnected superconnected teleconnected triconnected unconnected underconnected
Verb
- simple past and past participle of connect