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UNMARRIED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Not married or related to the unmarried state

Example:

are you married or single?

Synonyms:

single; unmarried

Classified under:

Adjectives

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)

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 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)