detached

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

de=tached

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective detached has 6 senses

detached(s = adj.all) degage, uninvolved - showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander"
detached(s = adj.all) isolated, separated, set-apart - being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"
detached(s = adj.all) separated - no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"
detached(a = adj.all) Array - used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage"

Antonym:

attached

detached(s = adj.all) unaffectionate, uncaring - lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person"
detached(s = adj.all) free - not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"

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THESAURUS

detached

Laodicean, Olympian, abstract, afoot and lighthearted, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, apathetic, at large, at liberty, backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bored, broken, candid, careless, casual, chilled, chilly, clear, cold, colorless, comatose, companionless, constrained, cool, cut off, desensitized, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discreet, discrete, disengaged, disinterested, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispassionate, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, distant, disunited, divided, divorced, dull, easygoing, emancipated, equitable, estranged, evenhanded, exclusive, exotic, expressionless, extraneous, fair, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, forbidding, foreign, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, friendless, frigid, frosty, gapped, go-as-you-please, guarded, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, homeless, hopeless, icy, impartial, impassive, impersonal, in a backwater, in a stupor, in the clear, inaccessible, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsistent, incurious, independent, indifferent, insouciant, insular, introverted, irrelative, isolate, isolated, just, kithless, languid, lethargic, liberated, listless, lofty, lone, lonely, lonesome, loose, mindless, modest, neutral, nonadherent, nonadhesive, nonchalant, noncoherent, noncohesive, numb, numbed, objective, offish, on the loose, open, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, poker-faced, quarantined, regardless, released, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, rootless, scattered, scot-free, secluded, seclusive, segregate, segregated, selfless, separate, separated, sequestered, shrinking, shut off, single-handed, slack, sluggish, solitary, solo, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, stoic, stolid, strange, stupefied, subdued, supine, suppressed, tenuous, torpid, unabetted, unaccompanied, unadhesive, unaffable, unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unapproachable, unassisted, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unbiased, uncaring, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncommitted, unconcerned, uncongenial, unconnected, undazzled, undemonstrative, unemotional, unengaged, unescorted, unexpansive, unfastened, unfrequented, ungenial, uninfluenced, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unjaundiced, unjoined, unmindful, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unselfish, unsupported, unswayed, untenacious, unvisited, withdrawn

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ROGET THESAURUS

detached

Irrelation

N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.

Incoherence

N incoherence, nonadhesion, immiscibility, incoherence, looseness, laxity, relaxation, loosening, freedom, disjunction, rope of sand, nonadhesive, immiscible, incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming, disheveled, segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated &c, uncombined, noncohesive.

Incuriosity

N incuriosity, incuriousness, insouciance, indifference, lack of interest, disinterest, boredom, ennui (weariness), satiety, foreknowledge (foresight), incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent, impassive, uninterested, detached, aloof.

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