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unmarried

Syllables: un·mar·ried/ʌnˈmæɹ.id/UK/ʌnˈmæɹ.id/

unmarried adjective: having no husband or wife.

Adjective

unmarried (not comparable)

  1. Having no husband or wife.
    • Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2023, Sinosphere
    Antonyms:
    married

Noun

unmarried (plural unmarrieds)

  1. An unmarried person.

unmarried meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

unmarried in Hindi

having no husband or wife
अनब्याहा anabyāhā, अविवाहित avivāhit
unmarried person
अविवाहित avivāhit

unmarried in Tamil

திருமணமாகாதவர், திருமணம் ஆகாதவர், திருமணமாகாதவர்கள்

unmarried in Marathi

unmarried
अविवाहित avivāhit

unmarried in Urdu

unmarried
بن بیاہا bin biyāhā
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unmarried in Bengali
অকৃতদার ôkritôdar, অকৃতোদ্বাহ ôkritodbahô, অকৃতোদ্বাহা okritōddaha, আইবুড়ো aibuṛō
unmarried in Telugu
పెళ్ళికాని peḷḷikāni
unmarried in Malayalam
വിവാഹം കഴിക്കാത്ത, വിവാഹം കഴിച്ചിട്ടില്ലാത്ത, അകൃതോദ്വാഹ, വണ്ട
unmarried in Kannada
ಮದುವೆಯಾಗದ, ಅವಿವಾಹಿತ, ಮದುವೆಯಾಗಿಲ್ಲದವ
unmarried in Punjabi
ਕੁਆਰਾ kuārā, چھڑا chaṛā
unmarried in Gujarati
અપરિણીત, અવિવાહિત
unmarried in Odia
ଅବିବାହିତ, ଅବିବାହିତା
unmarried in Assamese
আবিয়ৈ abioi
unmarried in Nepali
अविवाहित, अविवाहितहरू
unmarried in Persian
مجرد mojarrad
unmarried in Thai
โสด sòot
unmarried in Vietnamese
độc thân

Examples of unmarried in a sentence

  • He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
  • The new magazine's goal is to give a tribune to unmarried mothers.
  • She's unmarried and still a maiden.

All 27 example sentences with unmarried

Synonyms of unmarried

Antonyms

Forms of unmarried

pluralunmarrieds

Origin of unmarried

From un- + married.

Words formed from unmarried

Questions about unmarried

What does unmarried mean?
Unmarried means having no husband or wife.
What is unmarried in Hindi?
Unmarried in Hindi is अनब्याहा (anabyāhā), अविवाहित (avivāhit). See Unmarried meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unmarried?
Unmarried can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce unmarried?
Unmarried is pronounced /ʌnˈmæɹ.id/ (UK).

Words near unmarried in the dictionary

  1. unmarriageability
  2. unmarriageable
  3. unmarriageableness
  4. unmarriageably
  5. unmarriages
  6. unmarried
  7. unmarriedness
  8. unmarrieds
  9. unmarries
  10. unmarry
  11. unmarrying

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unmarried (page history and authors); unmarried (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); अविवाहित (Marathi) (page history and authors); بن بیاہا (Urdu) (page history and authors); অকৃতদার (Bengali) (page history and authors); unmarried (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unmarried (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); چھڑا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); unmarried (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unmarried (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unmarried (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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