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UK
/dɪtˈætʃt/
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[ US /diˈtætʃt, dɪˈtætʃt/ ]
[ US /diˈtætʃt, dɪˈtætʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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showing lack of emotional involvement
she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive
an uninvolved bystander
adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair -
being or feeling set or kept apart from others
she felt detached from the group
could not remain the isolated figure he had been
had a set-apart feeling
thought of herself as alone and separated from the others -
not fixed in position
the detached shutter fell on him
he pulled his arm free and ran -
lacking affection or warm feeling
an uncaring person -
no longer connected or joined
the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases
on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached
a detached part -
used of buildings; standing apart from others
a detached garage
detached houses
How To Use detached In A Sentence
- The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
- One of our current projects is to convert a couple of bungalows in south London into a five-bedroom detached property. Times, Sunday Times
- This done the tournette is set into motion, and when the film is equalized, which is done in a moment, the plate is detached, placed on a leveled stand and slowly dried with the spirit lamp. Photographic Reproduction Processes
- One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
- The detached house is still the dream. Times, Sunday Times
- But you don't pay the bill for your semi-detached on your Barclaycard.
- Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets. Steel Victory
- Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
- The two unsold detached villas have asking prices of 19,350 and 19,651 yuan a square metre.
- Contemporary drawings show that the cookhouse was badly cracked as was the barracks and one of the caponiers had completely detached itself.