divorced

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɔː(ɹ)st/

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Adjective

divorced (not comparable)

1. Cut off, or separated.

   divorced from reality

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:

     It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

   • 2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Romain Ioualalen, policy lead at Oil Change International, a pressure group, said: “The latest draft is an incoherent and dangerous list of weak measures completely divorced from what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C.”

2. (of a marriage) Legally dissolved.

   It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.

3. (of persons formerly married) Having had one's marriage legally dissolved.

   Mark's parents are divorced.

Synonyms

• split

Antonyms

• connected
• married
• engaged

Derived terms

• divorced energy
• divorced guy energy
• divorced kid
• I'm divorced
• innocently divorced
• nondivorced
• undivorced

 

Related terms

• divorce
• divorcee
• divorcing

Translations

separated

• Catalan: separat (ca)
• Danish: adskilt
• Finnish: erotettu (fi)
• German: getrennt (de), losgelöst (de)
• Hungarian: szétválasztott (hu), elkülönített (hu), elkülönült (hu)
• Maori: wehe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: adskilt

• Romanian: desprins (ro)
• Spanish: divorciado (es)

legally dissolved

• Catalan: divorciat (ca)
• Danish: opløst
• Dutch: gescheiden (nl)
• French: divorcé (fr)
• German: geschieden (de)
• Hindi: तलाकशुदा (talākśudā)
• Hungarian: elvált (hu)
• Ido: divorcinta (io)
• Italian: divorziato (it)
• Maori: wehe
• Navajo: ałtsʼátʼáázh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fraskilt

• Russian: разведённый (ru) (razvedjónnyj)
• Slovak: rozvedený
• Spanish: divorciado (es)

having had one's marriage legally dissolved

• Arabic: مُطَلَّق (ar) (muṭallaq)
• Catalan: divorciat (ca)
• Czech: rozvedený
• Danish: skilt
• Dutch: gescheiden (nl)
• Finnish: eronnut (fi)
• French: divorcé (fr)
• German: geschieden (de)
• Greek: διαζευγμένος (el) (diazevgménos), χωρισμένος (el) (chorisménos)
• Hungarian: elvált (hu)
• Italian: divorziato (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skilt (no)

• Portuguese: divorciado (pt)
• Romanian: divorțat (ro)
• Russian: разведённый (ru) (razvedjónnyj)
• Slovak: rozvedený
• Spanish: divorciado (es)
• Ukrainian: розлучений (rozlučenyj), розведений (rozvedenyj)

Verb

divorced

1. simple past and past participle of divorce