What is the meaning of detached?

verb

• Cause to become detached or separated; take off.
  • usage: "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"
  • synonyms: detach
• Separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment.
  • usage: "detach a regiment"
  • synonyms: detach
• Come to be detached.
  • usage: "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"
  • synonyms: detach, come off, come away

adjective

• Showing lack of emotional involvement.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: degage, uninvolved
• Being or feeling set or kept apart from others.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: isolated, separated, set-apart
• No longer connected or joined.
  • usage: "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"
  • synonyms: separated
• Used of buildings; standing apart from others.
  • usage: "detached houses"; "a detached garage"
• Lacking affection or warm feeling.
  • usage: "an uncaring person"
  • synonyms: unaffectionate, uncaring
• Not fixed in position.
  • usage: "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"
  • synonyms: free