DIVORCED Synonyms: 110 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in separated

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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

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Recent Examples of divorced

Adjective

Their biggest series that decade was Kate & Allie, the CBS comedy starring Susan Saint James and SNL original Jane Curtin as divorced best friends sharing a Greenwich Village apartment. — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 The discussions focused on how the church can support couples and families a decade on from a major document issued by Pope Francis, which opened the possibility of divorced and remarried Catholics being able to receive communion. — Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 Yet they, too, divorced Native Americans from the history of the land. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 He was found guilty in a subsequent civil trial, yet still awarded custody of the divorced couple’s two children. — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 The couple divorced after their deaths and Patrick Clancy remarried. — Mike Toole, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 Horrigan plays Alex, a divorced 50-year-old literary agent with a son, Ruari (Aran Murphy), who has failed to launch. — David Faris, TheWeek, 3 Sep. 2026 Norwegians are unmarried, divorced, families, and old couples. — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026 The divorced father of three appears to be going full steam ahead into a career in catwalking these days. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026

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Passmore plays David, a divorced, broke, and unraveling father who sets out for California with his oldest son, William (Nagy), on a two-thousand-mile drive. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026 The sextuplets had just turned 5 when their parents divorced, and their older twin siblings were 9. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026 His parents divorced in 2009 and the show was rebranded as Kate Plus Eight, focusing on Kate as a single mother. — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026 Luna implores Yue, recently divorced, not to get stuck in a holding pattern, either in her career or her relationships — but Luna, too, needs to make some changes. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have been divorced for nearly a decade. — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2026 The Bakkers divorced in 1992, while Jim was still serving his prison sentence. — John Wigger, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026 Messner, who divorced Bakker in the ‘90s and later remarried, died in 2007. — Ronnie Glassberg, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026 Tammy Faye divorced Bakker in 1992 and died of cancer in 2007 at 65. — Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for divorced

Adjective

In this tense, uneasy landscape, a separated couple, Natalie and Asher, reunite to take their child, Logan, on a trip to tour colleges in both territories.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Held at Henry and Stacey Winkler‘s home, the event highlighted the organization co-founded by Reinis, which focuses on separated families in border cities.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of separated

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However, the available demonstration does not specify the training setup, how responsibilities the divided between the learning methods, or the precise control architecture used during execution.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Cult members lived in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch that Mackenzie divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea.

— Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of divided

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The interface splits each 2-core fiber into two single-core fibers inside the repeater for efficient amplification, then merges them back into 2-core fibers.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
Wanda, a donkey, and Max, a horse, split their time between a farm upstate and a stable in the Bronx.

— Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of split

Verb

But these programs are disconnected and spread out across the state, creating a situation where students in one part of Connecticut may have access to opportunities that are walled off from students living elsewhere.

— P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
The team also demonstrated that the sheet could reconstruct its overall shape even after some fibers were cut or disconnected.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

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