Antonyms of verb divide

2 of 6 senses of divide

Sense 1
divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up -- (separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I")
       Antonym of unite (Sense 1)
      => unite, unify -- (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

Sense 2
divide, fraction -- (perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?")
       Antonym of multiply (Sense 1)
      => multiply -- (combine by multiplication; "multiply 10 by 15")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb divide

6 senses of divide

Sense 1
divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up -- (separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I")
       => change integrity -- (change in physical make-up)

Sense 2
divide, fraction -- (perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?")
       => calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure -- (make a mathematical calculation or computation)

Sense 3
separate, divide -- (act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries")

Sense 4
separate, divide, part -- (come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated")
       => change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")

Sense 5
separate, divide -- (make a division or separation)

Sense 6
separate, disunite, divide, part -- (force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea")
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")

Antonyms of adj divided

3 senses of divided

Sense 1
divided (vs. united) -- (separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided")

united (vs. divided) -- (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity; "presented a united front")
        => agreed, in agreement (predicate) -- (united by being of the same opinion; "agreed in their distrust of authority")
        => allied, confederate, confederative -- (united in a confederacy or league)
        => amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused -- (joined together into a whole; "United Industries"; "the amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a consolidated school")
        => coalescent, coalescing -- (growing together, fusing; "coalescent tradititions"; "coalescent bones")
        => cohesive -- (cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated; "a cohesive organization")
        => conjugate, conjugated, coupled -- (joined together especially in a pair or pairs)
        => conjunct -- (bound in close association; "conjunct influences"; "conjunct ideas")
        => federate, federated -- (united under a central government)
        => incorporate, incorporated, integrated, merged, unified -- (formed or united into a whole)
        => in league (predicate) -- ((usually followed by `with') united in effort as if in a league; "they found out that some policemen were in league with the criminals")
        => one (prenominal), unitary -- (having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice")
        => suprasegmental -- (pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound)
        => tied -- (bound together by or as if by a strong rope; especially as by a bond of affection; "people tied by blood or marriage")
        => undivided -- (not parted by conflict of opinion; "presented an undivided front")
        => unpartitioned -- (not divided by partitions)
        => unsegmented, nonsegmental -- (having a body that is not divided into segments; "unsegmented worms")

Sense 2
divided, dual-lane -- (having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions; "a divided highway")

INDIRECT (VIA multilane) -> single-lane -- ((of roads) having a single lane for traffic in both directions; when vehicles meet one must pull off the road to let the other pass)

Sense 3
divided, divided up, shared, shared out -- (distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose)

INDIRECT (VIA distributed) -> concentrated -- (gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore")

Similarity of adj divided

3 senses of divided

Sense 1
divided (vs. united) -- (separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided")
       => bicameral, two-chambered -- (consisting of two chambers; "the bicameral heart of a fish")
       => bifid -- (divided into two lobes; "a bifid petal")
       => bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy -- (resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots")
       => bifurcated -- (divided into or made up of two parts; "socially bifurcated populations")
       => bilocular, biloculate -- (divided into or containing two cells or chambers; "having a bilocular capsule")
       => black-and-white -- (of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories; "he rejected a black-and-white world"; "there are no black-and-white certainties"; "there were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white")
       => chambered -- (having compartmental chambers; "a spiral chambered seashell")
       => cloven, bisulcate -- ((used of hooves) split, divided; "bisulcate hoof")
       => dichotomous -- (divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications)
       => disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split -- (having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group")
       => disjointed -- (taken apart at the joints; "a disjointed fowl")
       => disjunct -- (having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects)
       => episodic -- (of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together")
       => four-pronged -- (having four prongs)
       => many-chambered -- (having many chambers)
       => metameric, segmental, segmented -- (having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters)
       => mullioned -- (of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone; "mullioned windows")
       => pentamerous -- (divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members; "pentamerous flowers")
       => pronged, tined -- (having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork")
       => sectional, sectioned -- (consisting of or divided into sections; "a sectional sofa"; "sectioned plates")
       => segmental -- (divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds)
       => three-pronged -- (having three prongs)
       => torn -- (disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions")
       => trifid -- (divided into three lobes; "trifid petals")
       => two-pronged -- (having two prongs)
          Also See-> distributive#1; segregated#1, unintegrated#2; separate#1

Sense 2
divided, dual-lane -- (having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions; "a divided highway")
       => multilane (vs. single-lane) -- ((of roads and highways) having two or more lanes for traffic)

Sense 3
divided, divided up, shared, shared out -- (distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose)
       => distributed (vs. concentrated) -- (spread out or scattered about or divided up)

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