as in wedded
of or relating to marriage
neither of them ever forgot their marital vows, no matter how hard things sometimes got
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Recent Examples of marital
The term is typically used to describe a heterosexual marital agreement used by one or both partners to hide their true sexuality.
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Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
And no human being deserves to leave their marital bedroom with their skull destroyed like what happened to Jason.
—Maureen Maher, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2025
The Husband’s behavior when taken as a whole is evidence of an effort to coerce the Wife into abandoning her marital rights and leaving with nothing.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Attempting to rearrange these relationships is just going to cause marital strife for you.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
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Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
And no human being deserves to leave their marital bedroom with their skull destroyed like what happened to Jason.
—Maureen Maher, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2025
The Husband’s behavior when taken as a whole is evidence of an effort to coerce the Wife into abandoning her marital rights and leaving with nothing.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Attempting to rearrange these relationships is just going to cause marital strife for you.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marital
Adjective
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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.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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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
Adjective
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People would wait just outside the arrival gate door, sometimes while dressed in goofy getups while toting balloons or homemade signs of welcome, congratulations or even matrimonial proposals.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Related Articles Gomez, who is currently engaged to producer and music artist Benny Blanco, finished her matrimonial look with her marquis diamond engagement ring, which is estimated to have cost around $200,000, according to the diamond experts from United Kingdom retailer Steven Stone.—
Marissa Muller,
WWD,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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No doubt a married couple in crisis at eight o’clock on a weekday morning.—
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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Watson was 26, married and childless at the time of the crash.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Indian weddings are known for being exquisitely festive, and a new restaurant offering the fare typically served at the celebratory occasions invites anyone to take place in a traditional nuptial banquet.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Pino, a Cuban immigrant who turned a modest plumbing business into a home-building empire, directed Villar and his crew to kill his wife upon her return from church that Sunday because the couple was facing an imminent trial over their 1992 nuptial agreement and marital assets, investigators say.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The latest installment follows the central friends-to-lovers romance of Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), ending with their connubial bliss and a new Bridgerton baby, the future new Lord Featherington.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 June 2024
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But now, the widowed Sophie needs West to feign an engagement with her in order to push her younger (also widowed) sister Alexandra into her own connubial bliss.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
29 Feb. 2024
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“Marital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marital. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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