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unpartnered

unpartnered adjective: without a partner.

Adjective

unpartnered (not comparable)

  1. Without a partner.
    • The novelist Anita Brookner, a shrewder handicapper of the luck of unpartnered women, tested that proposition in her Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel “Hotel du Lac,” in which a bloodless man tries to bully a woman into settling for him.2008 June 1, Liesl Schillinger, “Romance Languages”, in New York Times
    • […]all of the growth in the unpartnered population since 1990 has come from a rise in the number who have never been married.2021 October 21, Charles M. Blow, quoting Pew Research Center, “The Married Will Soon Be the Minority”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    single

Synonyms of unpartnered

Origin of unpartnered

From un- + partnered.

Questions about unpartnered

What does unpartnered mean?
Unpartnered means without a partner.
What part of speech is unpartnered?
Unpartnered is an adjective.

Words near unpartnered in the dictionary

  1. unpartitionable
  2. unpartitioned
  3. unpartitioning
  4. unpartitions
  5. unpartizan
  6. unpartnered
  7. unparts
  8. unparty
  9. unpass
  10. unpassable
  11. unpassableness

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