[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

detach \detach"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. detached; p. pr.  vb.
   n. detaching. f. d'etacher cf. it. distaccare,
   staccare; pref. d'e l. dis + the root found also in e.
   attach. see attach, and cf. staccato.
   1. to part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the
      opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous
      root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or
      from a party.
      1913 webster

   2. to separate for a special object or use; -- used
      especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from
      a fleet, or a company from a regiment.

   syn: to separate; disunite; disengage; sever; disjoin;
        withdraw; draw off. see detail.
        1913 webster
see also:
detached detaching attach staccato detail 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

detached \detached"\, a.
   separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached
   parcels. "extensive and detached empire." --burke.
   1913 webster

   detached escapement. see escapement.
      1913 webster
see also:
detached escapement escapement 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

detached
     adj 1: 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" syn: degage, uninvolved
     2: 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" syn: isolated, separated, set-apart
     3: 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"
        syn: separated
     4: used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached
        houses"; "a detached garage" ant: attached
     5: not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him";
        "he pulled his arm free and ran" syn: free
see also:
degage uninvolved isolated separated set-apart attached 
free 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

230 moby thesaurus words for "detached":
   laodicean, olympian, abstract, afoot and lighthearted, alien,
   alienated, alone, aloof, apart, apathetic, at large, at liberty,
   backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bored, broken,
   candid, careless, casual, chilled, chilly, clear, cold, colorless,
   comatose, companionless, constrained, cool, cut off, desensitized,
   disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discreet, discrete,
   disengaged, disinterested, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed,
   disjunct, dislocated, dispassionate, dispersed, disrelated,
   dissociated, distant, disunited, divided, divorced, dull,
   easygoing, emancipated, equitable, estranged, evenhanded,
   exclusive, exotic, expressionless, extraneous, fair, footloose,
   footloose and fancy-free, forbidding, foreign, free, free and easy,
   free as air, freeborn, freed, friendless, frigid, frosty, gapped,
   go-as-you-please, guarded, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless,
   homeless, hopeless, icy, impartial, impassive, impersonal,
   in a backwater, in a stupor, in the clear, inaccessible,
   incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsistent, incurious,
   independent, indifferent, insouciant, insular, introverted,
   irrelative, isolate, isolated, just, kithless, languid, lethargic,
   liberated, listless, lofty, lone, lonely, lonesome, loose,
   mindless, modest, neutral, nonadherent, nonadhesive, nonchalant,
   noncoherent, noncohesive, numb, numbed, objective, offish,
   on the loose, open, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world,
   outlandish, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, poker-faced,
   quarantined, regardless, released, remote, removed, repressed,
   reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring,
   rootless, scattered, scot-free, secluded, seclusive, segregate,
   segregated, selfless, separate, separated, sequestered, shrinking,
   shut off, single-handed, slack, sluggish, solitary, solo,
   soporific, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, stoic,
   stolid, strange, stupefied, subdued, supine, suppressed, tenuous,
   torpid, unabetted, unaccompanied, unadhesive, unaffable,
   unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unapproachable, unassisted,
   unassociated, unattached, unattended, unbiased, uncaring,
   uncoherent, uncohesive, uncommitted, unconcerned, uncongenial,
   unconnected, undazzled, undemonstrative, unemotional, unengaged,
   unescorted, unexpansive, unfastened, unfrequented, ungenial,
   uninfluenced, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unjaundiced,
   unjoined, unmindful, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unrelatable,
   unrelated, unseconded, unselfish, unsupported, unswayed,
   untenacious, unvisited, withdrawn

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