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

Horgan is no stranger to mixing drama and comedy in her work, which often pulls from her own experience as a divorced, working mother of two. — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

The tender family comedy stars Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro) and Eva Birthistle (Bad Sisters) as a divorced couple who struggle to maintain the minimum communication required to share custody of their beloved only child Rose. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026

The couple divorced after their deaths and Patrick Clancy remarried. — Mike Toole, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Dakota Fanning stars as Wendy, a construction worker in Anchorage, Alaska, whose relationship with Jack (Jake Johnson), a money manager and the divorced father of two young children, hits an odd obstacle. — Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026

Horrigan plays Alex, a divorced 50-year-old literary agent with a son, Ruari (Aran Murphy), who has failed to launch. — David Faris, TheWeek, 3 Sep. 2026

Norwegians are unmarried, divorced, families, and old couples. — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

The divorced father of three appears to be going full steam ahead into a career in catwalking these days. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026

Ana Mahony, a finance veteran, founded Addition Wealth after struggling to help her divorced mother manage finances, highlighting a gap in accessible personalized guidance. — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Verb

The host had invited five other men who had been unable to attend before lucky number six, also divorced, said yes and swept Barbara off her feet. — Genevieve Uzamere, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is getting divorced, according to South Dakota court filings. — Luke Barr, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

When Rupert Murdoch divorced his second wife, Anna dePeyster, their 1999 separation became the most expensive in history at that point. — Mathilde Engelmann, Vanity Fair, 27 Sep. 2026

As for her personal life, Liza has been married and divorced four times. — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 27 Sep. 2026

After leaving The Cosby Show and A Different World, Bonet divorced Kravitz, retreating from the spotlight and focusing on raising daughter Zoë. — Eric King, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026

The Budenholzers are said to share four children and to have divorced in 2016. — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Patrick and Lindsay Clancy were married at the time of the killings, but later divorced. — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026