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

Their biggest series that decade was Kate & Allie, the CBS comedy starring Susan Saint James and SNL original Jane Curtin as divorced best friends sharing a Greenwich Village apartment. — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026

The discussions focused on how the church can support couples and families a decade on from a major document issued by Pope Francis, which opened the possibility of divorced and remarried Catholics being able to receive communion. — Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

Yet they, too, divorced Native Americans from the history of the land. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

He was found guilty in a subsequent civil trial, yet still awarded custody of the divorced couple’s two children. — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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

Verb

Passmore plays David, a divorced, broke, and unraveling father who sets out for California with his oldest son, William (Nagy), on a two-thousand-mile drive. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

The sextuplets had just turned 5 when their parents divorced, and their older twin siblings were 9. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026

His parents divorced in 2009 and the show was rebranded as Kate Plus Eight, focusing on Kate as a single mother. — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026

Luna implores Yue, recently divorced, not to get stuck in a holding pattern, either in her career or her relationships — but Luna, too, needs to make some changes. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have been divorced for nearly a decade. — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2026

The Bakkers divorced in 1992, while Jim was still serving his prison sentence. — John Wigger, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

Messner, who divorced Bakker in the ‘90s and later remarried, died in 2007. — Ronnie Glassberg, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

Tammy Faye divorced Bakker in 1992 and died of cancer in 2007 at 65. — Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026