detached
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Adjective[edit]
detached (comparative more detached, superlative most detached)
- Not physically attached; separated from something it could connect to.
- Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed[1]:
- "That field is their football ground and the detached house is their library and recreation room."
- Having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested.
- Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.
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Translations[edit]
not physically attached; separated from something it could connect to
of a house: not joined to another house on either side
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having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested
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not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial
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Verb[edit]
detached
- simple past and past participle of detach