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.

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Other Word Forms

• nonsegregated adjective
• segregatedly adverb
• segregatedness noun

Etymology

Origin of segregated

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

Example Sentences

The artistic director could not yet confirm who would direct the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a former Negro League baseball player and his family navigating life in 1950s segregated Pittsburgh.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

"Sinners," the tale of gangster twins returning home to a supernatural and segregated Deep South in the 1930s, has already made Academy Awards history with its whopping 16 nominations.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

He had pulled a thread attached to a flat, rectangular piece of waffle-like material segregated into dozens of wonky-looking square tiles.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026

Though the schools were segregated, sometimes Colored and White children would play together after classes let out, as they had when we’d lived back at Dutch Run.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Related Words

• isolated
• restricted