separate

  • (a) independent; not united or joint
    • a problem consisting of two separate issues
    • they went their separate ways
    • formed a separate church
  • (s) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
    • a freestanding bell tower
    • a house with a separate garage
    freestanding,
  • (s) separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
    • separate but equal
    • girls and boys in separate classes
  • (s) have the connection undone; having become separate disjoined,

Nouns

  • (n) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication offprint, reprint,
  • (n) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

Verbs

  • (v) act as a barrier between; stand between
    • The mountain range divides the two countries
    divide,
  • (v) force, take, or pull apart
    • He separated the fighting children
    • Moses parted the Red Sea
    disunite, part, divide,
  • (v) mark as different
    • We distinguish several kinds of maple
    differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, tell,
  • (v) separate into parts or portions
    • divide the cake into three equal parts
    • The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
    carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up,
  • (v) divide into components or constituents
    • Separate the wheat from the chaff
  • (v) arrange or order by classes or categories
    • How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
    class, classify, sort out, assort, sort,
  • (v) make a division or separation divide,
  • (v) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
    • The business partners broke over a tax question
    • The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
    • My friend and I split up
    break up, part, split, split up, break,
  • (v) go one's own way; move apart
    • The friends separated after the party
    part, split,
  • (v) become separated into pieces or fragments
    • The figurine broke
    • The freshly baked loaf fell apart
    come apart, break, fall apart, split up,
  • (v) treat differently on the basis of sex or race discriminate, single out,
  • (v) come apart
    • The two pieces that we had glued separated
    divide, part,
  • (v) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
    • The road forks
    furcate, branch, fork, ramify,

Synonyms

divide offprint reprint freestanding disunite part differentiate distinguish secern secernate severalise severalize tell apart tell disjoined carve up dissever split split up class classify sort out assort sort break up break come apart fall apart discriminate single out furcate branch fork ramify

Antonyms

joint unite unify

See also

divided independent individual single other segregated unintegrated unshared decompose break down break up branch out broaden diversify

Words of close approximity

separated separately separateness separate off separate out