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Separated   /sˈɛpərˌeɪtəd/  /sˈɛpərˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Separated

adjective
1.
Being or feeling set or kept apart from others.  Synonyms: detached, isolated, set-apart.  "Could not remain the isolated figure he had been" , "Thought of herself as alone and separated from the others" , "Had a set-apart feeling"
2.
Spaced apart.  Synonym: spaced.
3.
Separated at the joint.  Synonyms: disjointed, dislocated.  "A separated shoulder"
4.
No longer connected or joined.  Synonym: detached.  "On one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached" , "The separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"



Separate

verb
(past & past part. separated; pres. part. separating)
1.
Act as a barrier between; stand between.  Synonym: divide.
2.
Force, take, or pull apart.  Synonyms: disunite, divide, part.  "Moses parted the Red Sea"
3.
4.
Separate into parts or portions.  Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up.  "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
5.
Divide into components or constituents.
6.
Arrange or order by classes or categories.  Synonyms: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out.
7.
Make a division or separation.  Synonym: divide.
8.
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.  Synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up.  "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" , "My friend and I split up"
9.
Go one's own way; move apart.  Synonyms: part, split.
10.
Become separated into pieces or fragments.  Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, split up.  "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
11.
Treat differently on the basis of sex or race.  Synonyms: discriminate, single out.
12.
Come apart.  Synonyms: divide, part.
13.
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.  Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify.



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"Separated" Quotes from Famous Books



... fullest; and, redoubled both in rage and in flood, I tore away woods from woods, and fields from fields; and together with the spot, I hurled the Nymphs[80] into the sea, who then, at last, were mindful of me. My waves and those of the main divided the land, {before} continuous, and separated it into as many parts, as thou seest {islands, called} Echinades, in the midst of ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso

... curiosity" in Milton's poetry; he is in some respects the finest craftsman who ever handled the English speech: so that this declaration is the more timely to remind us by how wide a chasm he is separated from those modern greenhouse poets who move contentedly in an atmosphere of art ideals and art theories. He had his breeding from the ancient world, where AEschylus fought at Marathon, and he could not think of politics as of a separable ...
— Milton • Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

... two lived together—the strange woman and the strange man. I used to sit night after night and question her smiling face; but no answer ever came. What did she know of me, after all? We were irrevocably separated by the five years of life that lay between us. At times, as I sat here, I almost grew to hate her; for her presence had driven away my gentle ghost, the real wife who had wept, aged, struggled with me during those awful years.... It was the worst loneliness I've ever known. ...
— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton

... constitution of society than on the material prosperity of the country. It divided the population of Greece into two classes. The rich formed an aristocratic class, the poor sank to the condition of serfs. It appears to be a law of human society that all classes of mankind who are separated by superior wealth and privileges from the body of the people are, by their oligarchical ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee

... since they had stood together watching the destruction, in the little vulgar grate at Chelsea, of the undisclosed work of her hand. They had at the time, and in due deference now, on his part, to Kate's mention of her responsibility for his call, immediately separated, and when they met again the subject was made present to them—at all events till some flare of new light—only by the intensity with which it mutely expressed its absence. They were not moreover in these weeks to meet often, in spite of the fact that this had, ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James


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