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

He was sent to the institution after Kate and Jon divorced in 2009, and then moved in with Jon, 49, who was later awarded custody of him. — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

The couple, who married in 2005 and divorced 13 years later, share children Violet, Fin, and Samuel. — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 25 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

Leigh and Olivier finally divorced that year; Olivier and Plowright married in 1961. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026

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

Her parents divorced early and shared custody across film and TV sets in Colorado and California and beyond, with Dakota and a nanny and a tutor and her half brother running between them. — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026

Charles and Diana divorced in 1996, a year before Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris at the age of 36. — ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026