segregated

[seg-ri-gey-tid]

adjective

1. characterized by or practicing racial segregation.

   a segregated school system.

2. restricted to one group, especially exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership.

   segregated neighborhoods.

3. maintaining separate facilities for members of different, especially racially different, groups.

   segregated education.

4. discriminating against a group, especially on the basis of race.

   a segregated economy.

5. set apart.

Other Word Forms

• segregatedly adverb
• segregatedness noun
• nonsegregated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of segregated¹

First recorded in 1645–55; segregate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

She and the other interned women were categorised and segregated.

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The civil rights leader was born in 1941 in segregated Greenville, S.C., and rose to prominence alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.

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He was allowed just one hour a day for exercise, by himself in the wing's segregated courtyard.

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In the 1960s, the median black girl living in a segregated black neighborhood received a name that was only twice as common among black girls as among white girls.

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The Supreme Court takes up segregated political maps, a temporary remedy that has lingered on.

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Related Words

• isolated 
• restricted