DIVORCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divorced mean? 

• DIVORCED (adjective)
  The adjective DIVORCED has 1 sense:

1. of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved

  Familiarity information: DIVORCED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVORCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved

Similar:

single; unmarried (not married or related to the unmarried state)

 Context examples 

Their artistry was high, but he denied the worthwhileness of artistry when divorced from humanness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'Donavan and Lester Meyer and George Duckweed and Francis Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now, and Henry L. Palmetto who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)