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UNMARRIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not married or related to the unmarried state
Example:
are you married or single?
Synonyms:
single; unmarried
Classified under:
Similar:
divorced (of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved)
mateless (of someone who has no marriage partner)
unwed; unwedded (of someone who has not been married)
widowed (single because of death of the spouse)
Also:
unmated (not mated sexually)
Antonym:
married (joined in matrimony)
Context examples:
I had heard that she was still unmarried, I found her at Lausanne and tried all I knew.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He seemed to think I had committed an impropriety in proposing to accompany him unmarried: as if I had not from the first hoped to find in him a brother, and habitually regarded him as such.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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