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Synonyms for detached
Synonyms for detached: uninvolved, free and separated. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for detached
Interchangeable with detached in this sense
Audited under detached's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one detached carries in that sense.
- uninvolvedadjective, in the sense "showing lack of emotional involvement"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name detached as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: one audited under detached and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
showing lack of emotional involvement
She may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive.
The true synonym
uninvolved
Same sentence, swapped: She may be uninvolved or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for detached in the sentence quoted.
- uncaring
- isolated
- reserved
Where detached turns up in the game
detached is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where detached is the trap
- unattendedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is neglected, in the sense "lacking a caretaker", and detached is on the board beside it.
Play detached
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so detached reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Sorted by difficulty rather than by topic, which is what an untagged word has to go on.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. detached carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.