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

The one Greek who remains, Sinon (Elliot Page), explains to the Trojan soldiers that the horse is a parting gift to the gods from his army, who seem to have given up on their years-long siege of the city. — David MacK, CNN Money, 18 July 2026

Mayrlife gave me a grinder of pink mineral salt as a parting gift and a packed lunch of rice cakes and goat cheese for the ride back to Vienna. — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026

Verb

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

Despite having their most successful season in a decade, the Charlotte Hornets are parting ways with Ball, sending him and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 first-round pick, three first-round pick swaps and three second-round picks. — Zach Harper, New York Times, 25 June 2026

Phrases Containing parting

• parting of the ways