Usually means: Separate, disconnected from immediate surroundings.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Detached:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. detached: Merriam-Webster
  2. detached, detached: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detached: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detached: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detached: Vocabulary.com
  6. Detached, detached: Wordnik
  7. detached: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. detached: Wiktionary
  9. detached: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. detached: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. detached: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Detached, detached: Dictionary.com
  13. detached: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Detached: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Detached: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. detached: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. detached: Rhymezone
  18. detached: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. detached: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. detached: FreeDictionary.org
  21. detached: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. detached: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. detached: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detached: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detached: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detached: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detached)

▸ adjective:  Not physically attached; separated from something it could connect to.
▸ adjective:  Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
▸ adjective:  Having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested.
▸ adjective:  Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.

Similar:
separate, freestanding, unconcerned, isolated, free, uninvolved, unfixed, unconnected, semidetached, degage, more...

Opposite:
attached, connected, engaged, involved, linked

Types:
semi-detached, townhouse, row house, condominium, apartment, duplex, triplex, fourplex, more...

Phrases:
detached from, detached houses, detached house, detached retina, detached retinas, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     charcoal,     stone, more...



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Similar:
separate, freestanding, unconcerned, isolated, free, uninvolved, unfixed, unconnected, semidetached, degage, more...

Opposite:
attached, connected, engaged, involved, linked

Types:
semi-detached, townhouse, row house, condominium, apartment, duplex, triplex, fourplex, more...

Phrases:
detached from, detached houses, detached house, detached retina, detached retinas, semi detached, detached binaries, retina detached, detached escapement, detached meristem, semi detached house, detached condo, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     charcoal,     stone, more...



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