divorcedadjective
uk/dɪˈvɔːst/us/dɪˈvɔːrst/divorced adjective (PEOPLE)
B1 married in the past but not now married:
She's divorced.
They got divorced after only six months of marriage.
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- His second marriage was annulled because he never divorced his first wife.
- Please state whether you are single, cohabiting, married, separated, divorced or widowed.
- There is no longer any stigma to being divorced.
- King Edward VIII abdicated so that he could marry Mrs Simpson, a divorced woman.
- They got divorced in 1992 after a tempestuous marriage.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Relationships: ending & divorce
- a parting of the ways idiom
- affiliation order
- annul
- break up
- break-up
- child support
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- give sb the push idiom
- go off with sb
- grow
- grow apart
- heave-ho
- push
- split
- split up
- throw
- throw sb over
- tug of love
- visitation
- walk
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divorced adjective (SUBJECTS)
not based on or affected by something:
Sometimes politicians seem to be divorced from reality.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Separateness and isolation in space
- apart
- atomistic
- atomized
- bitty
- cloistered
- distance
- distance yourself from sth
- freely
- give sth/sb a wide berth idiom
- hermetically sealed
- isolated
- loose
- parted
- privacy
- private
- purdah
- secluded
- uninhabited
- untethered
- wide
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