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

The divorced couple has also been involved in a bitter custody battle over their 2-year-old daughter. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 30 July 2026

Peter Parker is like a kid with divorced parents who’s been forced to split his time between mom and dad. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026

Our divorced mom apparently stole and kept some of my childhood journals. — R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 27 July 2026

As a kid in Southern California, Maddox lived in separate homes with her divorced parents, with Arguelles cultivating her love for the arts. — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 22 July 2026

Stiller steps into the role of divorced writing professor Gus Adler, who begins to fall for a mysterious woman named Stella West (Chastain). — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 21 July 2026

Fricker married director Barry Davis in 1979, and the two divorced in 1988. — Virginia Chamlee, 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

Verb

If anything, those who have divorced and remarried have had more chances to practice. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026

Twain’s mother, Sharon Edwards, divorced her father, Clarence, when the future superstar was only 2 years old. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026

Jon and Kate divorced in 2009, and Kate was initially awarded custody of their eight children. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026

And it is almost entirely divorced from the quality of the actual game. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

John and Frances divorced in 1969, with the children’s father awarded sole custody. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 29 July 2026

Patrick, who is divorced from Lindsay Clancy and has since remarried, was on the stand to start the day but was excused after emotional direct questioning about the day his children were killed. — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 29 July 2026

From at least this point on—if not earlier, given the promulgation of the Golden Bull—the Holy Roman Empire was an explicitly German state divorced from its historical connection to the papacy. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026

Tapping into the zeitgeist, the film stars Adam Scott (Hokum) and Danielle Deadwyler (Till) as suburban couple Sean and Kim who want to get divorced. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 July 2026