Detached
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
detached
adj 1: 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}]
2: 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}]
3: 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}]
4: used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached
houses"; "a detached garage" [ant: {attached}]
5: lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person" [syn:
{detached}, {unaffectionate}, {uncaring}]
6: not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him";
"he pulled his arm free and ran" [syn: {detached}, {free}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
230 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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