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: (architecture) 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}]