Synonyms of parting

parting 1 of 3

adjective

as in farewell

given, taken, or performed at parting

she gave him a parting gift to remember her by

Synonyms & Similar Words

• farewell
• final
• valedictory
• concluding
• leaving
• last
• departing
• closing
• ultimate

parting

2 of 3

noun

ˈpär-tiŋ 

1

as in departure

the act or process of two or more persons going off in different directions

although their parting was sad, they knew they would see each other again

Synonyms & Similar Words

• farewell
• departure
• leaving
• separation
• flight
• leave-taking
• exiting
• exodus
• withdrawal
• exit
• quitting
• going
• egress
• abandonment
• desertion
• forsaking
• running away
• decamping
• decampment

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reunion
• arrival
• greeting
• joining
• welcome
• meeting
• gathering
• salutation

2

as in departing

the act of leaving a place

everyone waved goodbye at his parting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• departure
• departing
• leave
• exodus
• going
• exiting
• evacuation
• farewell
• withdrawal
• quitting
• flight
• exit
• retirement
• leave-taking
• outgo
• decamping
• walking out
• lighting out
• emigration
• decampment
• retreat
• abandonment
• diaspora
• embarkation
• relinquishment
• egress
• running away
• forsaking
• disembarkation
• embarkment

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• arrival
• appearance
• coming
• approach
• advent
• entrance
• ingress

parting

3 of 3

verb

present participle of part

1

as in separating

to go or move in different directions from a central point

after traveling together for three weeks, we parted at Rome

Synonyms & Similar Words

• separating
• diverging
• dividing
• retreating
• forking
• spreading
• branching (out)
• scattering
• dispersing
• distributing
• dissipating
• disbanding
• dispelling
• broadcasting
• receding
• distancing
• sowing
• clearing out
• bestrewing
• breaking up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• joining
• meeting
• converging
• assembling
• gathering

2

as in exiting

to leave a place often for another

parted with great ceremony but with little preparation for the dangers that lay ahead

Synonyms & Similar Words

• departing
• exiting
• moving
• getting
• going
• fleeing
• starting
• escaping
• evacuating
• quitting
• bailing
• flying
• withdrawing
• running along
• retiring
• pulling out
• stepping (along)
• getting off
• walking out
• cutting out
• going off
• packing (up or off)
• taking off
• digging out
• peeling off
• pushing off
• pushing on
• clearing out
• booking
• shoving (off)
• buzzing (off)
• bailing out
• retreating
• sallying (forth)
• bugging out
• clearing off
• scarpering
• beating it
• emigrating
• skipping
• taking a hike
• buggering off
• taking a powder
• hitting the road
• vamoosing
• pulling stakes
• abandoning
• bugging off
• setting out
• removing
• striking out
• deserting
• piking (out or off)
• running away
• getting out
• forsaking
• going out
• vacating
• absconding
• stepping out
• decamping
• scramming
• mizzling
• lighting out
• scatting
• adjourning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• coming
• arriving
• remaining
• staying
• approaching
• closing
• showing up
• settling
• abiding
• dwelling
• nearing
• lodging
• reaching
• turning up
• tarrying
• hitting
• landing

3

as in dividing

to set or force apart

parted the prongs with pliers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• separating
• dividing
• splitting
• disconnecting
• severing
• resolving
• divorcing
• sundering
• pulling
• dissociating
• detaching
• isolating
• disassociating
• ramifying
• uncoupling
• decoupling
• dissecting
• disjoining
• decomposing
• disjointing
• cleaving
• breaking up
• dissevering
• disuniting
• dissolving
• subdividing
• unlinking
• unyoking
• tearing
• disintegrating
• fragmenting
• ripping
• disassembling
• bisecting
• breaking
• breaking down
• rending
• halving
• segmenting
• quartering
• partitioning
• bifurcating
• fractionating
• fracturing
• trisecting
• insulating
• fragmentating
• segregating
• unraveling
• dichotomizing
• riving
• cutting off
• rupturing
• untying
• fractionalizing
• sequestering
• disentangling
• secluding
• disengaging
• fragmentizing
• rifting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• joining
• linking
• mixing
• combining
• uniting
• connecting
• assembling
• blending
• mingling
• coupling
• unifying
• associating
• closing
• binding
• attaching
• sticking
• accumulating
• welding
• cementing
• fastening
• fusing
• knitting
• agglutinating

4

as in dying

to stop living

before I part, I hope I have the opportunity to say my good-byes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dying
• departing
• falling
• perishing
• ending
• exiting
• succumbing
• expiring
• disappearing
• passing (on)
• going
• passing away
• checking out
• stepping out
• fading
• buying it
• popping off
• croaking
• demising
• dropping
• kicking off
• deceasing
• kicking in
• pegging out
• snuffing it
• giving up the ghost
• biting the dust
• kicking the bucket
• flatlining
• conking (out)
• failing
• consuming
• predeceasing
• drying up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• living
• breathing
• coming to
• lingering
• reviving
• existing
• being
• flourishing
• subsisting
• prospering
• thriving

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of parting

Noun

In his parting words, Coleman expressed his love for the actress and his wish that she had been protected and free of suffering. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026

After parting ways with head coach Marin Sjögren and assistant coach Anders Jacobson, Karina Báez made her debut as interim coach for Chicago. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026

Verb

The house sits in a landscape of almost unimaginable beauty, cradled in the warm embrace of its own green valley, dramatic hills rising steeply on all sides but parting ahead to reveal distant fields. — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026

But the mom’s parting gift, a diary, provides opaque glimpses into her life with Alfonso in the mid-1980s. — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Phrases Containing parting

• parting of the ways