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say it: di-TACHT
detached is an adjective meaning "showing lack of emotional involvement". It is pronounced /dɪˈtætʃt/ — di-TACHT. It carries 6 recorded senses.
showing lack of emotional involvement
“adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair”
“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”
“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”
architecture
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for detached come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.