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Detached vs Disconnected - What's the difference?

detached | disconnected | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between detached and disconnected

is that detached is of a house: not joined to another house on either side while disconnected is that is no longer connected.

As verbs the difference between detached and disconnected

is that detached is past tense of detach while disconnected is past tense of disconnect.

detached

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
  • Having little or no emotions or interest towards someone else.
  • Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.
  • Derived terms

    * semi-detached

    Verb

    (head)
  • (detach)
  • disconnected

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disconnect)
  • The phone company disconnected my DSL.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That is no longer connected.
  • There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
  • Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
  • I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.
  • (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
  • Antonyms

    * connected

    Derived terms

    * disconnectedly * disconnectedness