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

David returns as President Curtis, a divorced chief executive accurately praised by a reporter for having the best voice in presidential history. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 24 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

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

Verb

For some folks, that means divorced, but that doesn’t have to be the case. — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 25 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

The relationship began several months after Sweeney ended her engagement to longtime partner Jonathan Davino, while Braun had been divorced from entrepreneur Yael Cohen since 2022. — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026

In season 14, Ronny Chieng stepped in for Toby Huss to voice Kahn Souphanousinphone, who is now divorced from Minh and was living in their garage. — Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026

The couple was married in 2002, welcomed daughter Sami in 2004, and were divorced the following spring. — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026

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