MARRIED Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈmer-ēd

Definition of married

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

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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as in committed

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

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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

Unmarried women often lived in the parental home, or went to live with a married sibling, or formed a household with other sisters who didn’t have husbands, either. — Kelly Marie Coyne, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 His wife, Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon), sees therapeutic possibility in a labor documentary being directed by Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong), who is herself married to wealthy private-equity honcho Sang-woo (Zo In-sung). — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026

Verb

Former Executive Director Donald Loncasty, who continues to work in development for the chorale and has been married to Bruffy since 2012, declined to comment. — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026 Émile’s leatherworkers often married Jeanne Lanvin’s seamstresses, who were confecting gowns for society women just across the way. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for married

Recent Examples of Synonyms for married

Adjective

That last might be especially true for female human beings who may be more encouraged to have derived an identity based on our role as marital partner or parent.

— Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
In roughly 90% of that subset, according to the organization's founder, Fraidy Reiss, marital exemptions in state statutory-rape laws shielded the adult spouse from prosecution.

— Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of marital

Verb

Once connected to tools, accounts, codebases, internal systems or financial workflows, AI agents can aggressively (and perniciously) take action on their own with limited human intervention.

— Larry Bradley, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
In the opening quarter, Jackson rushed for the Ravens’ first touchdown, and later connected with Zay Flowers for a 54-yard score.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of connected

Verb

Mozeliak is committed to the team only through the end of the calendar year.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
In the lead-up to filming in Dublin, Yeoh committed herself to authentically embodying a surgeon, attending in-person instruction at the Royal College of Surgeons.

— Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of committed

Verb

Dorothy and Jillian were also in disbelief, but totally engaged.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
At this point in time, Taylor is theoretically engaged to Doug, everyone’s least favorite of Taylor’s top-three men and whom even Taylor seems to have lukewarm feelings about now that they are no longer trapped in the same house.

— Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of engaged

Verb

That pair, combined with the wider structure and personnel around them, ensure Leeds do not collapse when home sides like Brighton, predictably, lay it on thick.

— Beren Cross, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Millions of dollars invested, millions tracked In Broward, Florida’s second most-populous county, law enforcement agencies have spent over $3 million combined to build their surveillance networks.

— Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of combined

Verb

Her power of creation and transformation is not wedded to motherhood but her own intelligence and desires.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 27 July 2026
In novels such as Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata wedded stream-of-consciousness to classical forms of ritual and performance, modeling rapid Japanese westernization through stories that overlay the ancient and the modern.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of wedded

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