divorced

Having legally ended your marriage.

• My parents are divorced.
• She got divorced five years ago.
• Is he married or divorced?

How to use it: get divorced (They got divorced last year.); divorced from someone (She has been divorced from him for ten years.)

Opposites: married

Common phrases: be divorced, get divorced, divorced parents

Separate from something, with little or no connection to it.

• His plans are divorced from reality.
• The lessons seemed divorced from everyday life.
• Their decisions are completely divorced from the facts.

How to use it: divorced from something (This theory is divorced from practical experience.)

Similar words: detached, disconnected

Opposites: connected

Common phrases: divorced from something, completely divorced, totally divorced

Describing a marriage that has been legally ended.

• The record lists the marriage as divorced.
• A divorced union has legally ended.
• The form marks each marriage as ongoing or divorced.

Similar words: dissolved

Common phrases: divorced marriage, legally divorced union