segregated

American  

[seg-ri-gey-tid] / ˈsɛg rɪˌgeɪ tɪd /

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

• nonsegregated adjective
• segregatedly adverb
• segregatedness noun

Etymology

Origin of segregated

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

Example Sentences

As a Black woman who grew up in the segregated South, she transmuted the prejudice her community faced into striking scenes of human connection, many of them sketched from memory and some rendered as linocuts.

From Los Angeles Times

A domestic in stringently segregated Greenville, Tibby brought home books and magazines, such as National Geographic, that her white employers’ children had discarded.

From Los Angeles Times

Since the 2023 violence, the communities have been largely segregated, confined to separate regions, with thousands displaced from their homes.

From BBC

Fairbanks, who was Black and Seminole, was born in the Deep South at a time when ice rinks were segregated.

From Los Angeles Times

From the presence of the Indigenous Choctaw people to the segregated sides of the same street, Coogler paints a picture of 1930s America with a documentarian’s brush.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• isolated
• restricted