UNATTACHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unattached mean? 

• UNATTACHED (adjective)
  The adjective UNATTACHED has 3 senses:

1. not fastened together

2. not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

3. (of animals) able to swim about; not attached

  Familiarity information: UNATTACHED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNATTACHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not fastened together

Similar:

unconnected (not joined or linked together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

Synonyms:

unattached; uncommitted

Similar:

unengaged; unpledged; unpromised (not promised in marriage)

Antonym:

attached (associated in an exclusive sexual relationship)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of animals) able to swim about; not attached

Synonyms:

free-swimming; unattached

Similar:

vagile (having freedom to move about)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

 Context examples 

`Oumuamua may well have been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with the Solar System.

(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)

A disorder characterized by apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.

(Anxiety Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

An assay to determine the ability of cells to grow unattached to a substrate.

(Anchorage-Independent Growth, NCI Thesaurus)

Apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.

(Anxiety, NCI Thesaurus)