divorced

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɔː(ɹ)st/

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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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, →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.

• split

• connected
• married
• engaged

• divorce
• divorcee
• divorcing

divorced

1. simple past and past participle of divorce