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Marital

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to marriage: marital status; marital problems.

adj. Of or relating to a husband.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Pertaining to marriage.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to a husband.

adj. Of or pertaining to marriage; matrimonial.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to a husband, or to marriage as it concerns the husband: as, marital rights or authority; marital devotion.

Hence Pertaining to or of the nature of marriage; matrimonial; connubial.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to the state of marriage

Word Usage

"He uses the term "marital disruption" because one of his main points is that the official "divorce rate" does not account for the number of households in which one spouse deserted the family."

Cross Reference

matrimonial marital affection conjugal spousal

Form

premarital postmarital

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

matrimonial husbandly

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

extramarital premarital

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

conjugal matrimonial fraternal parental nuptial