conjugal
adjective
con·ju·gal
ˈkän-ji-gəl 
also kən-ˈjü-
: of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial
conjugal happiness
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newlyweds still in a rapturous state of conjugal happiness
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The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 June 2024
Francis has even gone so far as to denounce as Pharisees those who affirm the authority of the church teaching that communion for the divorced or remarried who engage in the conjugal act is never permissible.
—R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
Prince Edward and Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh’s conjugal coat of arms has been spied online shortly after a royal crest on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s new website caused a commotion.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 June 2024
Francis has even gone so far as to denounce as Pharisees those who affirm the authority of the church teaching that communion for the divorced or remarried who engage in the conjugal act is never permissible.
—R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
Prince Edward and Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh’s conjugal coat of arms has been spied online shortly after a royal crest on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s new website caused a commotion.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
See All Example Sentences for conjugal
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“Conjugal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conjugal. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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conjugal
adjective
con·ju·gal
ˈkän-ji-gəl, kən-ˈjü-
: of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations
conjugal happiness
Legal Definition
conjugal
adjective
con·ju·gal
ˈkän-jə-gəl
: of or relating to marriage or to married persons and their relationships
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