uncommitted

Examples

• All

• That was the life of the unattached, the uncommitted.

  Fiction book (1990)

• And so women would have to work harder to find a mate, do without one, or become involved in uncommitted sexual relationships.

  Academic text (2002)

• We also consider the contrast between committed and uncommitted relationships.

  Academic text (2005)

• The respondents felt that these women were uncommitted and focused on sex rather than the relationship.

  Academic text (1999)

• This self-report scale measures willingness to engage in uncommitted sexual relations.

  Academic text (2006)

• Women inferred from a man's flashy spending that he was interested in uncommitted sex.

  Blog text (9)

• It may be that systems promoting monogamy in ongoing relationships are independent from those that regulate the behavior of uncommitted persons.

  Academic text (2006)

• Another possibility is that high self-monitors endorse relationship beliefs that enable them to maintain their "uncommitted" relationship orientations.

  Academic text (1994)

• Although both male and female profiles were given negative personality evaluations if their first intercourse experience happened at a young age and in an uncommitted relationship, evaluations of females were slightly more negative.

  Academic text (1999)

• Many people in their 20s choose to remain uncommitted rather than settle down too soon.

Synonyms

S

single

vsuncommitted

96 1.8

A person who is not married or in a romantic relationship

focuses more on not promising exclusive loyalty to one person

U

unwed

vsuncommitted

21 3.9

Not married and has never had a husband or wife

focuses on lack of exclusive romantic or sexual ties rather than marital status

U

unattached

vsuncommitted

11 3.9

Not in a romantic or sexual relationship with someone

is about also not promising loyalty to a particular person

U

unpledged

vsuncommitted

1 6.9

A person who is not promised to marry or engaged

is used particularly for lacking exclusive romantic or sexual ties

U

unwedded

vsuncommitted

1 6.5

A person who has never married

emphasizes lack of exclusive romantic or sexual ties rather than legal marriage

U

unpartnered

vsuncommitted

4.1

Not in a romantic relationship or living with someone

is about not promising loyalty to one specific person

U

unengaged

vsuncommitted

4.8

Not promised to marry someone

applies more broadly to lacking exclusive romantic or sexual ties

U

unmated

vsuncommitted

7.0

Not matched with another item

refers to absence of exclusive romantic or sexual involvement rather than simple pairing

Antonyms

C

committed

8 3.5

In a romantic relationship with only one partner and loyal to them

How Committed

married

∞ 1.0

engaged

1.4

couple

∞ 1.3

dating

357 1.6

uncommitted

1 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology