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

Why Glimcher allegedly balked at parting ways with his prized Pollock is anyone’s guess, but last week, Pace Gallery cut fifty people from its 250-person staff and dropped fifty artists from its overall roster of 135. — News Desk, Artforum, 8 June 2026

More so, some financial planners and experts warn parting ways with something potentially so valuable may in fact hurt employees in the long term, trading a potential high return for a physical asset that likely will not appreciate as much in value. — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 7 June 2026

Verb

In the past 50 years, namaste has evolved from a simple greeting and parting to a word that is a mini meditation on the interconnectedness and shared divinity of all beings. — Jeremy David Engels, The Conversation, 23 June 2026

Instead of seeing that through, Sorsby put the controversy of him playing in 2026 to bed by parting ways with Texas Tech and entering the supplemental draft. — Nick Harris june 18, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026

Phrases Containing parting

• parting of the ways