Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - divorced

1. Someone who is divorced from their former husband or wife has separated from them and is no longer legally married to them. He is divorced, with a young son. ADJ: oft ADJ from n 2. If you say that one thing is divorced from another, you mean that the two things are very different and separate from each other. ...speculative theories divorced from political reality. = unconnected ADJ: v-link ADJ from n 3. If you say that someone is divorced from a situation, you mean that they act as if they are not affected by it in any way. This just shows how divorced from reality she’s become. ADJ: v-link ADJ from n