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nonarranged

nonarranged adjective: based on a love match; in which the people getting married choose each other.

Adjective

nonarranged (not comparable)

  1. Based on a love match; in which the people getting married choose each other.
    • Korean culture includes three types of mate relationship: arranged, nonarranged (love), and eclectic (a combination of arranged and love).1993, Anne Maydan Nicotera, Interpersonal Communication in Friend and Mate Relationships, →ISBN
    • Having had a nonarranged marriage was found to be associated with favorable attitudes toward singlehood.1994, Lee-Jay Cho, Motoo Yada, Tradition and change in the Asian family, page 116
  2. Not in any particular order, random.
    • This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.1966, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in .in Ionized Gases
    • The intermediate layer is considerably thicker and its crystals are nonarranged, 1 to 2 microns in size.1972, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica - Volume 17, page 537

Origin of nonarranged

From non- + arranged.

Questions about nonarranged

What does nonarranged mean?
Nonarranged means based on a love match; in which the people getting married choose each other.
What part of speech is nonarranged?
Nonarranged is an adjective.

Words near nonarranged in the dictionary

  1. nonaromatized
  2. nonarousal
  3. nonaroused
  4. nonarousing
  5. nonarraignment
  6. nonarranged
  7. nonarrest
  8. nonarrested
  9. nonarrests
  10. nonarrhythmic
  11. nonarrhythmogenic

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