nonattached

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ attached.

Adjective

nonattached (not comparable)

1. Not attached
   • 1991 February 22, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “The Ill and the Sick”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     To call it feminist is to imply that we should also imagine plucky, intelligent, nonattached, and resourceful women being torn apart, along with bimbos and cops.

   • 2001 February 2, Richard J. Fisher et al., “Control of Fusion Pore Dynamics During Exocytosis by Munc18”, in Science‎^[2], volume 291, number 5505, →DOI, pages 875–878:

     The following day, nonattached cells were harvested by centrifugation and resuspended in growth medium at a density of 1 × 10⁷ per milliliter.