wedded

1 2.4

Married to each other

adjective
/ˈwɛdɪd/

Formal

: casado

Would you take the Courtney to be your lawfully wedded wife?
wedded bliss

Helen, do you take John to be your lawfully wedded husband?

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Examples

I, Donald, take you, Melania to be my lovely wedded wife.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
...more dances my rapt heart than when I first my wedded mistress saw bestride my threshold.

Coriolanus (2011)
And will you take this baby and be my lawfully wedded baby wife?
If you go through the right processes, you could be lawfully wedded one day, perhaps.
For years, family, friends, readers, and listeners have asked me to blog on all things love, sexy, beautiful, wedded, and mommyful!

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Many couples believe that true happiness comes from their wedded life together.
After a long engagement, they finally held a beautiful ceremony to celebrate their wedded union.
The wedded couple enjoyed a romantic vacation to celebrate their anniversary.

Synonyms

married

vswedded

∞ 1.0

Having a husband or wife

uses more formal or traditional wording for the same marital state

Antonyms

single

96 1.8

A person who is not married or in a romantic relationship

divorced

1.8

No longer married because a court ended the marriage

Surface Forms

wedded positive

Morphology

wedded = wed (transparent) = wed + ed

Formed from the verb 'wed' with the past participle/adjectival suffix '-ed', meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Wedded comes from the old English verb wed, which meant 'to promise' or 'to marry' and is the same root as wedding. So to be wedded is to be promised or joined to someone as husband or wife.