bifurcated
Divided in two
Bifurcated means divided into two branches or parts.
A bifurcated road splits into two paths; a bifurcated argument has two distinct prongs.
The word appears often in technical and legal contexts: a bifurcated trial separates liability from damages.
The river bifurcated around the island.
The verb bifurcate and noun bifurcation share this sense of splitting in two.
Separation into parts
- Y-shapedForked at one end
- V-shapedTwo lines meeting angularly
- branchedDivided into offshoots
- prongedHaving pointed extensions
cleft · divergent · tined · dichotomous · ramified · furcated · splayed · parted
Narrow vertical split
- lobedHaving rounded projections
- bilobedHaving two rounded divisions
- bilateralInvolving two parties
- symmetricalEven on all sides
venation · vascular · arterial · bronchial · neural · rootstock · tributary · deltaic
Divided into distinct sections
- separatedPut or kept apart
- cleavedSplit forcefully apart
- halvedSplit into two
- sunderedViolently split apart
segmented · dissected · dichotomized · disjoined · bipartite · bilateral · two-sided · dual
Dividing into parts
- separationState of being apart
- branchingSplitting into separate directions
- divisionSplitting into parts
- partingAct of leaving another
diversion · schism · rift · break · fracture · departure · detachment · disconnection
Meeting of routes
- dilemmaForced choice between undesirables
- divergingSeparating from a common point
- alternativesOther available options
- optionsAvailable courses of action
split
Separation into parts
pronged · cleft · divergent · tined · dichotomous · ramified · furcated · splayed · parted · two-pronged
cleft
Narrow vertical split
symmetrical · venation · vascular · arterial · bronchial · neural · rootstock · tributary · deltaic · dendritic
partitioned
Divided into distinct sections
sundered · segmented · dissected · dichotomized · disjoined · bipartite · bilateral · two-sided · dual · paired
splitting
Dividing into parts
- separationState of being apart
- branchingSplitting into separate directions
- divisionSplitting into parts
parting · diversion · schism · rift · break · fracture · departure · detachment · disconnection · ramification
crossroads
Meeting of routes
- dilemmaForced choice between undesirables
- divergingSeparating from a common point
- alternativesOther available options
- broken apartapart, asunder, broken, broken up, fragmented
- hyphenated wordsup-to-date, pitch-black, jaw-dropping, round-the-clock, air-conditioned
- shapescircle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval
- circulationblood, circulation, arteries, veins, bloodstream
- leaf traitscordate, lanceolate, ovate, serrate, dentate
- compartmentalizedsiloed, partitioned, segmented, divided, sectioned
bifurcatedunified
Combined into one
united · undivided · single · whole · consolidated
bifurcate, bifurcation, bifurcating, bifurcates, bifurcations