unmarried
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈmɛrɪd/
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- Married clients were more likely to receive help than unmarried clients, especially with personal care.
- unmarried women
- unmarried mothers
- married or unmarried
He was young, unmarried, male, arriving from Iran.
- He was young, unmarried, male, arriving from Iran.
- I only heard cautionary tales about how tragic and sad unmarried, divorced or widowed women were.
- What is newsworthy is that Murphy Brown at the time was unmarried.
- And so her mother's generation would have expected the daughter to live with the mother, the unmarried daughter to live with the mother.
- A bachelor will no longer be an unmarried male, but rather be a married male next week.
- I was really, I was really stressed out about being an unmarried mum, like really, really stressed out and felt, you know, societally pressured into it.
- But an unmarried single man right for to and to now have to to deal with that.
Examples
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The researchers stated that the study was focused on the sexual attitudes of unmarried, heterosexual women.
Academic text (1999) -
The only other unmarried woman I know is 82, blind and a Paiute.
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Your brother was unmarried, as are you.
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Usually, when women found out that he was unmarried, they wanted to know why.
Fiction book (1991) -
I am Christian, thirty years old, unmarried, and a good friend of the Stones.
Fiction book (1995) -
We're the only two unmarried, childless.
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She was unmarried, so she had no stable income.
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In his twenties and still unmarried, Topia had been employed by the Electricity Commission.
Academic text (1999) -
I mean, an unmarried man in his late 30s, going to all the musicals with a bunch of old blue-hairs...
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Many unmarried individuals choose to focus on their careers instead of starting a family.
Synonyms
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Not married and not in a romantic relationship
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Not in a romantic or sexual relationship with someone
Not in a romantic relationship or living with someone
Antonyms
Compounds
How Married
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unmarried is built from the part un- that means 'not' and married, from marry meaning 'joined in marriage'. So unmarried simply means 'not married', someone without a husband or wife.