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monogamous

/məˈnɒɡəməs/US/məˈnɑɡəməs/

monogamous adjective: involving marriage to one person at a time.

Adjective

monogamous (not comparable)

  1. (strictly) Involving marriage to one person at a time.
    • Suppose, for example, that if polygamy were legal, 10 percent of adult men would take an average of three wives apiece and that all remaining marriages would be monogamous.2006 March 16, Robert H. Frank, “Polygamy and the Marriage Market: Who Would Have the Upper Hand?”, in The New York Times
    Antonyms:
    polygamous
  2. Characterized by mutual sexual and romantic exclusivity.
  3. Exclusively engaging in mutually exclusive sexual/romantic partnership.
  4. Having only one sexual partner at a time.
  5. Monogamic; having a simple flower with united anthers.

monogamous meaning in Tamil and Thai

monogamous in Tamil

ஒரு புணர்ச்சியுள்ள, ஒரு வாழ்க்கைத் துணையையுடைய

monogamous in Thai

being married to one person at a time
ผัวเดียวเมียเดียว pǔua-diao-miia-diao

Examples of monogamous in a sentence

  • It is almost maybe more like I'm polysaturated at one rather than it being monogamous.
  • The estrildids are all monogamous (forming long-term or life-long pair bonds) and exhibit biparental care.
  • As we get older, a lot of our monogamous allo friends will find their life partner, get married, and have kids.

All 16 example sentences with monogamous

Antonyms of monogamous

Origin of monogamous

From mono- + -gamous.

Words formed from monogamous

Questions about monogamous

What does monogamous mean?
Monogamous means involving marriage to one person at a time.
What is monogamous in Tamil?
Monogamous in Tamil is ஒரு புணர்ச்சியுள்ள, ஒரு வாழ்க்கைத் துணையையுடைய. See Monogamous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is monogamous?
Monogamous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce monogamous?
Monogamous is pronounced /məˈnɒɡəməs/ (UK).

Words near monogamous in the dictionary

  1. monogamish
  2. monogamist
  3. monogamistic
  4. monogamists
  5. monogamize
  6. monogamous
  7. monogamously
  8. monogamousness
  9. monogamy
  10. monoganglionic
  11. monoganglioside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monogamous (page history and authors); monogamous (Tamil 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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