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detached

UK/dɪˈtæt͡ʃt/US/dɪˈtæt͡ʃt/
adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,773 of 15,258leans written

Detached means standing on its own, or showing no emotional involvement. A detached house.

The house sense is the commoner in Britain and is worth a great deal on any valuation. Of a person it can be praise in a doctor and a criticism in a friend.

Boereck · Public domain

Definitions of detached

  1. 1adjectivedetachedStanding on its own, or showing no emotional involvement.B2

    “The detached house on the corner cost twice what the terrace did.”

detached is a quality.

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detached in the wild

  • The name distinguishes this style of construction from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced houses, with a shared wall on both sides.

    Semi-detached

  • Often, semi-detached houses are built in pairs in which each house's layout is a mirror image of the other's.

    Semi-detached

  • Although styled as a "detached palace", often translated as "imperial villa", there were never any large-scale buildings there, as there are at the Katsura Imperial Villa.

    Shugakuin Imperial Villa

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.