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DETACHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does detached mean? 

DETACHED (adjective)
  The adjective DETACHED has 6 senses:

1. showing lack of emotional involvementplay

2. being or feeling set or kept apart from othersplay

3. no longer connected or joinedplay

4. used of buildings; standing apart from othersplay

5. lacking affection or warm feelingplay

6. not fixed in positionplay

  Familiarity information: DETACHED used as an adjective is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


DETACHED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing lack of emotional involvement

Synonyms:

degage; detached; uninvolved

Context example:

an uninvolved bystander

Similar:

unconcerned (lacking in interest or care or feeling)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Being or feeling set or kept apart from others

Synonyms:

detached; isolated; separated; set-apart

Context example:

had a set-apart feeling

Similar:

separate (independent; not united or joint)


Sense 3

Meaning:

No longer connected or joined

Synonyms:

detached; separated

Context example:

the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases

Similar:

unconnected (not joined or linked together)


Sense 4

Meaning:

Used of buildings; standing apart from others

Context example:

a detached garage

Similar:

freestanding; separate (standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything)

semidetached (attached on one side only)

Domain category:

architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

Antonym:

attached (used of buildings joined by common sidewalls)


Sense 5

Meaning:

Lacking affection or warm feeling

Synonyms:

detached; unaffectionate; uncaring

Context example:

an uncaring person

Similar:

unloving (not giving or reciprocating affection)


Sense 6

Meaning:

Not fixed in position

Synonyms:

detached; free

Context example:

he pulled his arm free and ran

Similar:

unfixed (not firmly placed or set or fastened)


 Context examples 


I'm too detached to talk scandal, and yet at scientific conversaziones I HAVE heard something of Challenger, for he is one of those men whom nobody can ignore.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rearrangement in which part of a chromosome is detached by breakage and becomes attached to another chromosome.

(Chromosomal Translocation, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

William and Fanny were the most detached.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Von Bork detached a small key from his watch chain, and after some considerable manipulation of the lock he swung open the heavy door.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The air was thick with flying wreckage, detached ropes and stays were hissing and coiling like snakes, and down through it all crashed the gaff of the foresail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Briarbrae proved to be a large detached house standing in extensive grounds within a few minutes’ walk of the station.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He worked on in the daze, strangely detached from the world around him, feeling like a familiar ghost among these literary trappings of his former life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mr. Bingley and Jane were standing together, a little detached from the rest, and talked only to each other.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When marine organisms ingest these microplastics, the pollutant particles get detached from them, contaminating organisms' tissues and harming their nervous and hormonal systems.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

Morphologically, it shows papillae with detached cell clusters.

(Borderline Ovarian Mixed Epithelial Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)



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