attached

• IPA^(key): /əˈtætʃt/

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• Rhymes: -ætʃt
• Hyphenation: at‧tached

attached

1. simple past tense and past participle of attach

attached (comparative more attached, superlative most attached)

1. Connected; joined.
2. Fond of (used with to).

   I'm very attached to my pets.

3. In a romantic or sexual relationship.

   As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.

   I'm not ready to get attached, as I want to continue sleeping around.

4. (botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.

   In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.

5. Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.

• (sharing two walls): detached, semiattached

• deattach