Lexic.us

Definition of Detached

1. Adjective. Showing lack of emotional involvement. "An uninvolved bystander"

2. Adjective. Being or feeling set or kept apart from others. "Had a set-apart feeling"

3. Adjective. No longer connected or joined. "The separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"

4. Adjective. Used of buildings; standing apart from others. "A detached garage"

5. Adjective. Lacking affection or warm feeling. "An uncaring person"

6. Adjective. Not fixed in position. "He pulled his arm free and ran"

Definition of Detached

1. a. Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.

Definition of Detached

1. Adjective. Of a house: not joined to another house on either side. ¹

2. Adjective. Having little or no emotions or interest towards someone else. ¹

3. Adjective. Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial. ¹

4. Verb. (past of detach) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Detached

1. detach [v] - See also: detach

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detached

desynes desyning desynonymization desynonymizations desynonymize desynonymized desynonymizes desynonymizing detach detachabilities

detachability detachable detachable balloon detachableness detachably detached (current term) detached cranial section detached craniotomy detached house detached houses

detached retina detachedly detachedness detachednesses detacher detachers detaches detaching detachment detachment of the retina

Literary usage of Detached

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"Gil. ; Hope and Hathersage detached. Nos. 2 to G, 49 sheets at 2s. ... 1, Leonard Stanley detached, Nos. 2 and 3, and North Nibley detached, Nos. ..."

2. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1885)
"January 19, 1871, detached and ordered to command the Nyack. ... December io, 1874, detached from the Naval Academy and ordered to command the Juniata. ..."

3. Pacific Reporter by West Publishing Company (1886)
"It would seem that, in order that Ellis should be considered as neg- ligent, he should have known that the car was to be detached, and when and where it was ..."

4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"Essex IO?7~I058' was detached from East-Anglia. The new Earl seems to and of have received only the two strictly East-Anglian shires, shire. with the ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"Hants : Portsmouth, Herts : Hunsdon and ditto detached, 8 sheets at Standen, in completion, 3 sheets at 2s. Gd., 1 at 4s 2s. ..."

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