connubial
UK/kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/US/kəˈnu.bi.əl/
connubial adjective: of or relating to the state of being married.
Adjective
connubial (comparative more connubial, superlative most connubial)
- Of or relating to the state of being married.
- "For my part," continued the Duke of Wharton, "I hold that the connubial system of this country is a complete mistake. The only happy marriages I ever heard of are those in some Eastern story I once read, where the king marries a new wife every night, and cuts off her head in the morning."1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 179–180
- Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13
- Synonyms:
- conjugal
connubial meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
connubial in Urdu
- ازدواجی, عروسی
connubial in Bengali
- বিবাহ, বৈবাহিক সম্পর্ক সংক্রান্ত
connubial in Kannada
- ಮದುವೆಯ
Synonyms of connubial
Forms of connubial
| comparative | more connubial |
|---|---|
| superlative | most connubial |
Origin of connubial
1650s, from Latin connūbiālis, from connūbium (“marriage, wedlock”) (variants of cōnūbiālis (“pertaining to wedlock”), from cōnūbium (“marriage, wedlock”)) from com- (“together”) (English com-) + nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”) (from which nubile) from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”).
Words formed from connubial
Questions about connubial
- What does connubial mean?
- Connubial means of or relating to the state of being married.
- What is connubial in Urdu?
- Connubial in Urdu is ازدواجی, عروسی. See Connubial meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is connubial?
- Connubial is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce connubial?
- Connubial is pronounced /kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/ (UK).
Words near connubial in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: connubial (page history and authors); connubial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); connubial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); connubial (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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