'Detached' definitions:
Definition of 'detached'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander" [syn: degage, detached, uninvolved]
adjective
Being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: detached, isolated, separated, set- apart]
adjective
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" [syn: detached, separated]
adjective
Used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage" [ant: attached]
adjective
Lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person" [syn: detached, unaffectionate, uncaring]
adjective
Not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran" [syn: detached, free]
Definition of 'Detached'
From: GCIDE
- Detach \De*tach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detached; p. pr. & vb. n. Detaching.] [F. d['e]tacher (cf. It. distaccare, staccare); pref. d['e] (L. dis) + the root found also in E. attach. See Attach, and cf. Staccato.]
- 1. To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.
- Syn: To separate; disunite; disengage; sever; disjoin; withdraw; draw off. See Detail. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Detached'
From: GCIDE
- Detached \De*tached"\, a. Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Detached escapement. See Escapement. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'detached'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Laodicean,
- lethargic,
- liberated,
- listless,
- lofty,
- lone,
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- loose,
- mindless,
- modest,
- neutral,
- nonadherent,
- nonadhesive,
- nonchalant,
- noncoherent,
- noncohesive,
- numb,
- numbed,
- objective,
- offish,
- Olympian,
- 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