Difference between Separated and Detached

What is the difference between Separated and Detached?

Separated as a verb is to divide (a thing) into separate parts. while Detached as a verb is to take apart from; to take off.

Separated

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To divide (a thing) into separate parts.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: detached; not connected or joined. estranged; living apart but not divorced.

Example sentence: There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

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: Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.

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

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