Antonyms of verb unify

1 of 5 senses of unify

Sense 1
unify, unite, merge -- (become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge")
       Antonym of disunify (Sense 1)
      => disunify, break apart -- (break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989")

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

5 senses of unify

Sense 1
unify, unite, merge -- (become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge")
       => integrate -- (become one; become integrated; "The students at this school integrate immediately, despite their different backgrounds")

Sense 2
mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate -- (to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 3
unite, unify -- (bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation; "the Democratic Patry platform united several splinter groups")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 4
unite, unify -- (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)
       => join, fall in, get together -- (become part of; become a member of a group or organization; "He joined the Communist Party as a young man")

Sense 5
unite, unify, merge -- (join or combine; "We merged our resources")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Antonyms of adj unifying

2 senses of unifying

Sense 1
consolidative, unifying -- (combining into a single unit)

INDIRECT (VIA integrative) -> disintegrative -- (tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts)

Sense 2
centripetal, unifying (prenominal) -- (tending to unify)

INDIRECT (VIA centralizing) -> decentralizing, decentralising -- (tending away from a central point)

Similarity of adj unifying

2 senses of unifying

Sense 1
consolidative, unifying -- (combining into a single unit)
       => integrative (vs. disintegrative) -- (combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole)

Sense 2
centripetal, unifying (prenominal) -- (tending to unify)
       => centralizing (prenominal) (vs. decentralizing), centralising (prenominal) -- (tending to draw to a central point)