Antonym: selfish. Similar words: semidetached, detachment, attached, poached, broached, detain, detail, attach. Meaning: [-tʃt] adj. 1. showing lack of emotional involvement 2. being or feeling set or kept apart from others 3. no longer connected or joined 4. used of buildings; standing apart from others 5. not fixed in position.
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121. The mothers in general were detached and uninterested in their children.
122. I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat.
123. A spokesman listed the casualties in a detached, matter-of-fact tone of voice.
124. But power, by the minute, is becoming detached from the public support that gives it meaning.
125. Hanley said many builders have transformed what would have been attached town-house developments a few years ago into detached condo projects.
126. They fought without passion, their faces showed the same detached venom.
127. The mood somber on the grassy knolls, I stood, feeling like an observer, detached from the group, defeated.
128. Workers detached the power lines from the old, rotting poles.
129. In the case of the twins, the id seems wholly detached from the ego.
130. She half closed her eyes, but she knew that the picture she presented was anything but detached.
131. Much of the critical antipathy towards the Reeve derives from the ingestion of such prejudice as opposed to detached examination of it.
132. Vaults have generally replaced the original timber roofs in the later Middle Ages and most churches have a detached, later campanile.
133. A regimental musician who had become detached from his unit, he followed in the wake of the attack as a spectator.
134. Suddenly, it was like arguing with an icily detached stranger again.
135. From their judicious distance they watched in silence(sentencedict.com), with detached interest.
136. In it we know ourselves to be rational agents detached from spontaneity, judging on objective grounds what will serve our ends.
137. Neighbours in other flats at the three-storey detached house raised the alarm at 3am.
138. The great need, in his view, is to cultivate selfless or detached action to the exclusion of egocentric activity.
139. She fiddled around for a while, and cursed and muttered before she managed to get one detached.
140. If the caption does become detached the finder can see at a glance what it is.
141. The less pubescent diner can cast a detached eye on this ritual from six Formica-topped tables inside the tiny deli-restaurant.
142. After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace.
143. Sitting on a limb in a slight drizzle,(http://sentencedict.com/detached.html) I felt detached from the present time.
144. Our new house is a two bedroom semi detached house.
145. You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached, but you do not want to live on an estate.
146. "Detached" collocates with "house".
147. Still smiling, still watching her, Guido reached unhurriedly behind him and detached a stem of bright red geranium.
148. If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
149. To a reasonably detached observer, the biggest difference between real estate folks and editor folks is the questions they ask.
150. In other words, Heisenberg pointed out that bodies, not detached minds, perform experiments.
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