Adjacent Words

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEP'ARATED, pp. Divided; parted; disunited; disconnected.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: detached, isolated, separated, set-apart]
2: spaced apart [syn: separated, spaced]
3: separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder" [syn: disjointed, dislocated, separated]
4: no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases" [syn: detached, separated]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Separate Sep"a*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Separated; p. pr. & vb. n. Separating.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to separate; pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. Sever.] 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. --Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. --Gen. xiii. 9. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? --Rom. viii. 35. 2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa. 3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem. --Acts xiii. 2. Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. --Gray.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone who is separated from their wife or husband lives apart from them, but is not divorced. Most single parents are either divorced or separated... Tristan had been separated from his wife for two years. ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ from n 2. If you are separated from someone, for example your family, you are not able to be with them. The idea of being separated from him, even for a few hours, was torture... ADJ: oft ADJ from n

Moby Thesaurus

alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, assorted, asunder, at a distance, at odds, at variance, away, companionless, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cordoned, cordoned off, departing, detached, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disaffected, disagreeing, disarticulated, disconnected, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, disparate, dispersed, disrelated, dissimilar, dissociated, dissonant, distal, distant, distinct, distinguished, disunited, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, divided, divorced, estranged, exotic, extraneous, far, far off, faraway, foreign, friendless, heterogeneous, homeless, in a backwater, in disagreement, inaccordant, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent, inharmonious, insular, interspaced, intervaled, irreconcilable, irrelative, isolated, kithless, legally separated, lone, lonely, lonesome, long-distance, long-range, many, motley, multifarious, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, parted, poles apart, poles asunder, quarantined, remote, removed, retired, rootless, roped off, scattered, sealed off, secluded, segregate, segregated, separate, sequestered, set at intervals, several, shut off, single-handed, solitary, solo, spaced, spaced out, strange, torn, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconformable, unconnected, unequal, unescorted, unfrequented, unlike, unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, widowed, widowered, widowish, widowlike, widowly, with an interval, with intervals, withdrawn, worlds apart