UNCOUPLED Synonyms: 136 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in dissociated

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verb

past tense of uncouple

as in separated

to set or force apart uncoupled the two railroad cars

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Adjective

An absurdist black comedy that satirizes our culture's discomfort around uncoupled people, The Lobster asks what would happen if singles were given 45 days to find a mate, or be transformed into the animal of their choice. — Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Feb. 2026 To prevent releasing any asbestos, whole sections of the old pipe are uncoupled from their connections without cutting. — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025 Democrats and liberal pundits in particular have seen expressions of thoughts and prayers, particularly coming from the GOP and prominent commentators on the right, as an empty gesture when uncoupled with specific actions on gun control to prevent mass shootings. — Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 30 Aug. 2025

Verb

Nigo has mostly favored coed shows during the men’s calendar in Paris since 2022, but had recently uncoupled them to give womenswear a bigger spotlight. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 18 Dec. 2025 In exchange for some $200 million per season, NBC and Peacock will assume dominion over the Sunday Night Baseball package from which ESPN uncoupled itself in February. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncoupled

Adjective

Granite counters and a mini-split air-conditioning unit round out the room, which acts like a hub, connecting to multiple other spaces.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
Jim Orr, Universal’s head of domestic distribution, noted that the audience gender divide was evenly split and about 2/3 were between 18 and 34 years old.

— Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of split

Adjective

Democratic wins for governor in November could bring divided power to Alaska, Ohio, Georgia, Florida and Texas.

— Kevin Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
The stoneware dishes, with their childlike design, candy-colored glazes, and divided compartments, might jog formative memories of Montessori sorting trays or vintage TV dinners.

— Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of divided

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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

Definition of disconnected

Adjective

Their leader, the one who had held up the severed hand, was introduced as Maulvi Abdur Rahman Muzami, a judge.

— Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026
In the show’s second season, Lumon struggles to contain the fallout from these discoveries and fires the head of the severed floor, Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette), replacing her with her former deputy, Seth Milchick (Tillman).

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of severed

Verb

To rebalance things, Earth's crust and mantle must become decoupled from our planet's core, which stays aligned with the rotational axis.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Tilting the system partially decoupled heat transfer from charge transfer.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of decoupled

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

Definition of divorced

Adjective

This view helpfully shows key numbers (such as resolved requests, involvement rate, resolution rate) at the top, along with a funnel that visualizes visualizing how requests are resolved (with AI or humans).

— Dianna Gunn, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026
There's a difference between a closed ticket and a resolved issue.

— Amit Mathradas, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of resolved

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