[
US
/ənˈmɛɹid/
]
[ UK /ʌnmˈæɹɪd/ ]
[ UK /ʌnmˈæɹɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not married or related to the unmarried state
unmarried men and women
single parenthood
unmarried life
sex and the single girl
are you married or single?
How To Use unmarried In A Sentence
- Today, we no longer gasp when we hear a teenage girl is pregnant or whisper about unmarried couples who live together.
- My unmarried survey respondents seem to understand that friendship is the basis of a good marriage even as they hold out for chemistry and thunderbolts and soulmates.
- Most households consist of a married or unmarried couple and their children.
- He's not one of your crazy futurists - he won't dole out contraceptive medicine to anyone unmarried, say, and despite being an ob-gyn, he's a staunch pro-lifer.
- Headwear had, at points, indicated the marital status of a woman, with unmarried women sometimes allowed to go hatless or with hair down. Fashion: A Bygone Era of Hats « Colleen Anderson
- Even in this day and age, when unmarried mothers are hardly seen as shameless hussies anymore, there are still girls who suffer incredible loneliness because they daren't bring shame upon their families.
- There had been a time, he knew, when two unmarried persons of the opposite sex, walking hand in hand without chaperonage, might have beento say the leastfrowned upon. The Messenger
- Similarly, although nobody wants to be called a prude, one could hardly deny that being offended by non-abstinence sex education, pre-marital sex, and homosexuality is objectively anti-sex (that is to say: unmarried, non-heterosexual, and/or kinky sex). Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
- But she did not conceive of unmarried life as a solution.
- To this it may be due that Miss Arabella had reached the age of five and twenty not merely unmarried but unwooed. Captain Blood