adjectives
showing lack of emotional involvement
"adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander"
being or feeling set or kept apart from others
"she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"
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"
used of buildings; standing apart from others
"detached houses"; "a detached garage"
is similar to
standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
"a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
is similar to
attached on one side only
"a semidetached house"
domain category
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"
lacking affection or warm feeling
"an uncaring person"
not fixed in position
"the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"