divorced
separated from a spouse or separated from something related
Roots
- dis- / dif-: apart, away, not, reversal, or disruption
- vers / vert / verg: turn, bend, or incline
Other words with the vers / vert / verg root
- adverse: unfavorable or opposed
- advertise: to call attention to something
- aversion: strong dislike or turning away
- avert: to turn away or prevent
- converge: to come together toward one point
- diverge: to move apart from a shared point
- divergent: moving or developing in different directions
- divert: to turn aside or redirect
Divorced keeps the turn-apart image: two things once joined are now pulled away from each other.
The policy was divorced from the daily reality of the students it claimed to help.