Synonyms of divorced

divorced 1 of 2

adjective

as in separated

Related Words

• separated
• marriageable
• unmarried
• unpaired
• unwed
• unattached
• fancy-free
• footloose
• single

Dissimilar Words

• married
• attached
• wedded
• engaged
• paired
• mated
• pledged
• committed
• espoused
• hitched
• betrothed
• remarried
• promised
• affianced

divorced

2 of 2

verb

past tense of divorce

as in divided

to set or force apart

in your head you need to divorce your wishes and fantasies from the realities of the world as it is

Synonyms & Similar Words

• separated
• divided
• split
• disconnected
• severed
• resolved
• disassociated
• dissociated
• isolated
• detached
• decoupled
• uncoupled
• sundered
• parted
• disunited
• disjoined
• pulled
• subdivided
• decomposed
• disjointed
• dissevered
• broke up
• ramified
• dissected
• dissolved
• disintegrated
• unlinked
• unyoked
• fragmented
• partitioned
• cleaved
• disassembled
• bifurcated
• fractured
• fractionated
• ripped
• broke down
• segregated
• bisected
• halved
• rent
• tore
• ruptured
• fragmentized
• dichotomized
• quartered
• broke
• cut off
• segmented
• disengaged
• fragmentated
• sequestered
• insulated
• fractionalized
• unraveled
• disentangled
• rifted
• secluded
• trisected
• untied
• rived

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• joined
• united
• combined
• linked
• unified
• mixed
• associated
• blended
• connected
• assembled
• mingled
• coupled
• attached
• bound
• closed
• welded
• stuck
• accumulated
• fused
• cemented
• fastened
• knit
• agglutinated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of divorced

Adjective

In the midst of starring as Cosmo Kramer over the show’s nine-year run, Richards and his wife of 18 years, Cathleen Lyons, divorced. — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

Maude Findlay is a white, upper-middle-class housewife living in Tuckahoe, New York, with her fourth husband, Walter; Carol Traynor, her divorced daughter; and Carol’s young son. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 July 2026

Silvia, a lonely single mother of three sons and owner of a successful dental clinic, matched with an American soldier named Brian, a handsome, divorced, 52-year-old on a mission in Syria in 2015. — Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2026

To claim Head of Household (HOH), the taxpayer generally must be unmarried (single, legally separated, divorced, or widowed) or be considered unmarried, pay more than half the cost of maintaining the home, and have a qualifying person. — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026

But my own family has felt the brunt of the exclusion after my father’s parents – both of whom were Parsi – divorced and each remarried outside. — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026

Many parents are single, divorced or live with same-sex partners. — ABC News, 18 June 2026

The reunion comes 15 years after the couple divorced amid rumors of a cheating scandal. — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 13 June 2026

As Kat gets to know Charlie — a divorced single dad and math teacher — their fake romance blossoms into real love. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026

Verb

Trump is twice divorced, relishes cursing publicly and offers a never-ending onslaught of falsehoods. — Will Weissert, Fortune, 18 July 2026

Populist theatrics, divorced from the prosaic work of consensus-building and problem-solving, degenerate into political escapism. — Will Marshall, Washington Post, 18 July 2026

Anyway, now Carmella has an ex-husband she is not divorced from and a boyfriend who cheated on her. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 July 2026

The couple divorced when Jenner was 7, and a few years later MJ found love with businessman Harry Shannon. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026

Gas and diesel prices have taken on a life of their own, divorced from whatever is going on in the Strait of Hormuz and America’s ability to extract concessions from Iran. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Nogueira first revealed in a TikTok post in February that she and Hawken were getting divorced, sharing at the time that the split was amicable. — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026

After his parents divorced, Gavin Newsom was unofficially adopted by Gordon Getty, essentially returning the favor that the Newsom family had given him three decades earlier. — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 July 2026

Since leaving the series, Jeana divorced Matt (who died suddenly in 2020) and has been spending more time in Florida. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 10 July 2026