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unwed

unwed adjective: not married.

Adjective

unwed (not comparable)

  1. Not married.

Noun

unwed (plural unweds)

  1. One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster.
    • Should unweds living together receive the same social benefits as married couples?
    • Perhaps the most awkward situation for the inexperienced young landlady was how to deal with “unweds.”1944, Emily Carr, “Unmarried”, in The House of All Sorts

Verb

unwed (third-person singular simple present unweds, present participle unwedding, simple past and past participle unwed or unwedded)

  1. (transitive) To annul the marriage of.
    • At last it was determined to unwed the unhappy pair, during the arrangements for which the husband was arrested and put into jail for six months for rioting.1918, All the World, volume 39, page 304
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To separate.
    • A singer must be a fool indeed if you do not hear through Sullivan's notes the exact language of any song. Take, for example, the well-known Sentry song in Iolanthe and attempt to unwed the wit of the air from the wit of the thought and words; […]2008, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Studies in Literature: Third Series, page 206

unwed meaning in Tamil

unwed in Tamil

மணமாகாத, திருமணமாகாத

Forms of unwed

Noun
pluralunweds
Verb
third-person singular presentunweds
present participleunwedding
past participleunwed
pastunwed
past participleunwedded
pastunwedded

Past tense of unwed: unwed or unwedded

Origin of unwed

From un- (not) + wed.

From un- (to reverse) + wed.

Words that rhyme with unwed

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about unwed

What does unwed mean?
Unwed means not married.
What is unwed in Tamil?
Unwed in Tamil is மணமாகாத, திருமணமாகாத. See Unwed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unwed?
Unwed can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near unwed in the dictionary

  1. unweaving
  2. unweb
  3. unwebbed
  4. unwebbing
  5. unwebs
  6. unwed
  7. unwedable
  8. unweddable
  9. unwedded
  10. unweddedness
  11. unwedding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unwed (page history and authors); unwed (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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