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adjective

ˈmer-ēd How to pronounce married (audio)
Definition of marriednext
as in marital
of or relating to marriage a sermon on the joys and responsibilities of married love

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verb

past tense of marry
1
as in connected
to perform the ceremony of marriage for they chose a priest who was a family friend to marry them

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2
as in committed
to give in marriage the couple worried about the cost of marrying off five daughters

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3
as in remarried
to take as a spouse he married his girlfriend three years ago, and they've been happy ever since

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as in mated
to take a spouse she had always believed she would never marry, but fate proved her wrong

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as in combined
to come together to form a single unit white wine and chicken marry especially well

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Recent Examples of married
Adjective
Now a married woman in midlife, Livia is shaken by a phone call from the long-absent Sigurd. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026 Bishop Felix Davidek responded by secretly ordaining married men and some women, including Ludmila Javorová. — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
Simpson and Nicole married in 1985 and had two children, Sydney and Justin. — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The pair were married Saturday at the Huntington Library Botanical Gardens in Pasadena, according to an Instagram Stories post from a friend, seen by People. — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for married
Recent Examples of Synonyms for married
  1. marital
  2. connected
  3. committed
  4. engaged
  5. mated
  6. combined
  7. wedded
  8. matched
Adjective
  • Indah teaches her how to run the house and even what to do in the marital bed, and Gadis looks after Firman, the one person who takes her ghost stories seriously.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
  • For the last three, Corinealdi’s character, Jax, has maneuvered through family and marital stress, thrived against office politics and betrayals, endured a kidnapping, and nearly faced death before pulling through a coma after a near-fatal shooting.
    — DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of marital
Verb
  • So the two started chatting and wondered if there was a resource where they could get connected to couples having a wedding in their area who needed a seat-filler of sorts.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The two filmmakers had been struggling to get anyone else in Holmes’s orbit on-camera when Emma Stone, a close friend of Fielder’s, connected him with Amanda Seyfried.
    — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of connected
Verb
  • At the same time, Musk has committed roughly $366 million to the 2026 election cycle across at least 40 races, making the world's richest person the midterms' biggest individual donor so far.
    — Luke Fountain,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
  • After allegedly killing Jett, prosecutors say, Von Ferdinand committed real estate fraud and theft on her estate, including grand theft, identity theft, forgery and filing false documents with losses over $500,000.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of committed
Verb
  • While Oniks cruise missile engaged a maritime target, and covered a distance of 105 miles.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Mangianello claims to be currently recovered and is now engaged to influencer Caitlin O’Connor, 37.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of engaged
Verb
  • The power plant is mated to a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The engine comes mated to a 6-speed gearbox and is equipped with a slip and assist clutch.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of mated
Verb
  • By 2015, New Atlas was covering innovations such as the Diamond Hotend, which combined three filament feeds into a single nozzle, although even that approach could produce waste towers when changing colors.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The gusty offshore winds combined with very warm and dry conditions will maintain Red Flag Warnings for most of Los Angeles and Ventura counties through Saturday.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of combined
Verb
  • With this convention, noir wedded its core theme, inescapable destiny, to the form of cinematic storytelling.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Chrome’s trashy, thrashy playing wedded the urgency of punk with devotion to older, sleazy rock ’n’ roll.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of wedded
Verb
  • Loofe’s friend matched with Audrey and gave her details to investigators, who soon discovered that the phone number belonged to a 23-year-old woman named Bailey Boswell.
    — Samantha Bergeson, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The size of these holes matched the size and shape of a single bacterial cell, the study found.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of matched

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“Married.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/married. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

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