detachedadjective
uk/dɪˈtætʃt/us/dɪˈtætʃt/detached adjective (SEPARATE)
separated:
The label became detached from your parcel.
C1 UK A detached house is not connected to any other building:
Prices are rising so fast that people can't afford detached houses.
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semi-detached
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Separateness and isolation in space
- apart
- atomistic
- atomized
- bitty
- cloistered
- distance
- divorced
- freely
- give sth/sb a wide berth idiom
- hermetically sealed
- isolated
- loose
- parted
- privacy
- private
- purdah
- secluded
- uninhabited
- untethered
- wide
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detached adjective (WITHOUT EMOTION)
C2 A detached person does not show any emotional involvement or interest in a situation:
She seemed a bit detached, as if her mind were on other things.
Throughout the novel, the story is seen through the eyes of a detached observer.
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Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- immune
- impassive
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
- stoicism
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