Synonyms of sundered

sundered 1 of 2

adjective

as in severed

Related Words

• severed
• divided
• split
• parted
• dissociated
• resolved
• disunited
• divorced
• dissevered
• uncoupled
• disjoined
• ramified
• broken up
• discontinuous
• unyoked
• apart
• farthest
• noncontinuous
• far
• distant
• removed
• unlinked
• isolated
• away
• unconnected
• detached
• disconnected
• discrete
• free-standing
• far-off
• faraway
• isolate
• unattached
• separate
• remote
• noncontiguous
• single
• nonadjacent

Dissimilar Words

• adjacent
• contiguous
• joining
• adjoining
• neighboring
• conterminous
• abutting
• touching
• flush
• closest
• close
• nearest
• fringing
• immediate
• nearby
• near
• juxtaposed
• joined
• approximate
• nigh
• next-door
• united
• connected
• flanking
• verging
• bordering
• linked
• attached
• skirting
• connecting
• communicating
• interconnecting

sundered

2 of 2

verb

past tense of sunder

as in divided

to set or force apart

during the cold war East and West Berlin were sundered by an impenetrable wall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• divided
• separated
• split
• disconnected
• severed
• resolved
• parted
• divorced
• dissociated
• disjoined
• disunited
• dissevered
• isolated
• disassociated
• uncoupled
• ramified
• decoupled
• pulled
• detached
• disjointed
• decomposed
• dissected
• cleaved
• subdivided
• disintegrated
• dissolved
• broke up
• unyoked
• unlinked
• fragmented
• partitioned
• fractured
• disassembled
• ripped
• tore
• bisected
• bifurcated
• halved
• segmented
• quartered
• fractionated
• ruptured
• segregated
• unraveled
• broke
• dichotomized
• broke down
• rived
• trisected
• rifted
• insulated
• fractionalized
• disentangled
• fragmentated
• cut off
• untied
• rent
• disengaged
• sequestered
• fragmentized
• secluded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• united
• joined
• linked
• combined
• associated
• unified
• assembled
• mixed
• mingled
• connected
• blended
• coupled
• bound
• attached
• closed
• welded
• fused
• cemented
• fastened
• accumulated
• stuck
• agglutinated
• knit

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sundered

Adjective

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln, hoping to unite a sundered nation, issued a proclamation declaring Thanksgiving to be a national holiday. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025

Verb

Behind him stood his tractor, and behind me was an almond tree, sundered. — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026

It was booked to fly on a Soyuz in 2022, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February of that year sundered the international partnership that led to the deal, putting the satellite in mothballs for a spell. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 May 2026

Yet the epic’s songs were collected in both Finland and Karelia, reflecting a cultural affinity sundered by the politics of empire. — Thomas A. Dubois, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026

The company has already sundered its businesses internally into two divisions ahead of a formal separation. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025

Others, like me, wake up in the middle of the night, their sleep sundered into two chunks. — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

Comcast and Versant won’t be completely sundered after the split, as the USGA deal demonstrates. — David Bloom, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025