| detached | | |
| adj. | 1. degage, detached, uninvolved | showing lack of emotional involvement.; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander" |
| ~ unconcerned | lacking in interest or care or feeling.; "the average American...is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal and economic and governmental actions...beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control"; "blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight" |
| adj. | 2. detached, isolated, separated, set-apart | being or feeling set or kept apart from others.; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" |
| ~ separate | independent; not united or joint.; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" |
| adj. | 3. detached, separated | no longer connected or joined.; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases" |
| ~ unconnected | not joined or linked together. |
| adj. | 4. detached | used of buildings; standing apart from others.; "detached houses"; "a detached garage" |
| ~ architecture | the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
| ~ freestanding, separate | standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything.; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" |
| ~ semidetached | attached on one side only.; "a semidetached house" |
| adj. | 5. detached, unaffectionate, uncaring | lacking affection or warm feeling.; "an uncaring person" |
| ~ unloving | not giving or reciprocating affection. |
| adj. | 6. detached, free | not fixed in position.; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran" |
| ~ unfixed | not firmly placed or set or fastened. |
| come off | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. come away, come off, detach | come to be detached.; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery" |
| ~ blow off | come off due to an explosion or other strong force. |
| ~ chop off, lop off, cut off | remove by or as if by cutting.; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch" |
| ~ unsolder | remove the soldering from. |
| ~ fall off | come off.; "This button had fallen off" |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| v. (change) | 2. come off, go off, go over | happen in a particular manner.; "how did your talk go over?" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (contact) | 3. break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off | break off (a piece from a whole).; "Her tooth chipped" |
| ~ flake off, peel, flake, peel off | come off in flakes or thin small pieces.; "The paint in my house is peeling off" |
| ~ exfoliate | come off in a very thin piece. |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| detach | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. detach | cause to become detached or separated; take off.; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it" |
| ~ snap off, break off, break | break a piece from a whole.; "break a branch from a tree" |
| ~ unbind | untie or unfasten.; "unbind the feet of this poor woman" |
| ~ disconnect | make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten. |
| ~ unhook | take off a hook. |
| v. (motion) | 2. detach | separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment.; "detach a regiment" |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ divide, separate | make a division or separation. |
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