detached
Americanadjective
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not attached; separated.
a detached ticket stub.
- Antonyms:
- attached
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having no wall in common with another building (attached ).
a detached house.
- Antonyms:
- attached
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impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased.
a detached judgment.
- Synonyms:
- unprejudiced, dispassionate, evenhanded, neutral, uninvolved
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not involved or concerned; aloof.
adjective
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disconnected or standing apart; not attached
a detached house
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having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested
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social welfare working at the clients' normal location rather than from an office; not dependent on premises for providing a service Compare outreach
a detached youth worker
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ophthalmol (of the retina) separated from the choroid layer of the eyeball to which it is normally attached, resulting in loss of vision in the affected part
Other Word Forms
- detachedly adverb
- detachedness noun
- undetached adjective
Etymology
Origin of detached
Example Sentences
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They were investigating why sea ice detached from a glacier years after a nearby ice shelf broke apart in 2002.
From Science Daily
To make way for a U.S. base, Britain detached the islands from the administrative control of Mauritius, which sits 1,300 miles away from the Chagos, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained its independence.
In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.
A purely digital code might transmit information faster, but it would be detached from everyday experience.
From Science Daily
This island near the Statue of Liberty, dotted with large, detached houses and patchy bus service, is politically more conservative than New York's other four boroughs.
From Barron's
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