Synonyms for split
- verb
- noun
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
2. Break open
Other
break, cut, splinter, crack, sunder, slit, shatter, rend, disunite rare, dispart rare, unstring rare
Noun
1. Separation
separation, gap, division, rift, rip, rent, tear, fissure, rupture, snag, disunion, breach, chap
2. Breakup
split-up, breakup, stock split US
Adjective
1. Divided
Definitions
- v. 1
To leave.
Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
- v. 2
To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- n. 1
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- adj. 1
Divided.
Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- splits → separations, gaps, divisions, rifts…
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To split is to cause wood to crack or part in the way of the grain, and is applied to any other case where a natural tendency to separation is enforced by an external cause; as, to split a convention or a party.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- divide It's better to divide the corpse into five pieces.
- explode We are sitting on a powder keg waiting to explode.
- cleave The explorers were unable to cleave a path through the jungle.
- splinter Part of the splinter remained underneath the skin.
By length
- 2 letters
- go1
- 3 letters
- cut1, gap1, rip1
- 4 letters
- part1, rent1, tear1, dash1, rift1, chap1, slit1, snag1, rive, rend
- 5 letters
- start1, leave1, break1, crack1, skill1, burst1, cleft1, riven2, bifid
- 6 letters
- broken2, divide2, breach1, depart2, schism2, cleave1, sunder2, cloven
- 7 letters
- divided3, cracked1, explode2, breakup2, rupture2, shatter2, fissure2, dispart
- 8 letters
- division3, separate3, divorced2, splinter2, disunion3, disunite, dissever, unstring
- 9 letters
- bipartite, disunited
- 10 letters
- separation4, fragmented3, bifurcated4
- 12 letters
- disconnected4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (riven2 = 2 syllables).