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attached

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United States//əˈtæt͡ʃt//

Connected; joined.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of attachsimple past and past participle of attach

adjective

  1. 1

    Connected; joined.

    The car has something of a history attached to it.

  2. 2

    Fond of (used with to).

    I'm very attached to my pets.

  3. 3

    Included as an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).

    Please see the attached file in my previous email.

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    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.

  6. 6

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

Forms

comparative
more attached
superlative
most attached
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).