Difference between Separate and Detached

What is the difference between Separate and Detached?

Separate as an adjective is apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else). while Detached as an adjective is of a house: not joined to another house on either side.

Separate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else). Not together (with); not united (to).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To divide (a thing) into separate parts. To cause (things or people) to be separate. To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.

Example sentence: When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Detached

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take apart from; to take off.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: 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.

Example sentence: Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.

We hope you now know whether to use Separate or Detached in your sentence.

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