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Antonyms for marriage
ˈmær ɪdʒmar·riage
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term marriage.
Wiktionary
marriagenoun
Antonyms:
divorcemarriagenoun
The state of being married.
You should enter marriage for love.
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divorcemarriagenoun
The union of two (or sometimes more) people, usually to the exclusion of all others.
Antonyms:
divorcemarriagenoun
A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
Antonyms:
divorcemarriagenoun
A close union.
Antonyms:
divorcemarriagenoun
A joining of two parts.
Antonyms:
divorcemarriagenoun
A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em and some other card games.
Antonyms:
divorce
English Synonyms and Antonyms
marriage
Matrimony denotes the state of those who are united in the relation of husband and wife; marriage denotes primarily the act of so uniting, but is extensively used for the state as well. Wedlock, a word of specific legal use, is the Saxon term for the state or relation denoted by matrimony. Wedding denotes the ceremony, with any attendant festivities, by which two persons are united as husband and wife, nuptials being the more formal and stately term to express the same idea.
Antonyms:
bachelorhood, celibacy, divorce, maidenhood, virginity, widowhoodSynonyms:
conjugal union, espousal, espousals, matrimony, nuptials, spousal, spousals, union, wedding, wedlockPreposition:
Marriage of or between two persons; of one person to or with another; among the Greeks.
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Princeton's WordNet
marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlocknoun
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
"a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
Synonyms:
conjugation, pairing, conglutination, join, trades union, uniting, matrimony, unification, coupling, sum, spousal relationship, sexual union, trade union, union, man and wife, wedlock, marriage ceremony, mating, wedding, brotherhood, labor union, jointure, married couplemarriage, married couple, man and wifenoun
two people who are married to each other
"his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"
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married couple, marriage ceremony, wedlock, man and wife, wedding, matrimony, spousal relationship, unionmarriage, wedding, marriage ceremonynoun
the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony
"their marriage was conducted in the chapel"
Synonyms:
married couple, marriage ceremony, wedlock, wedding party, hymeneals, man and wife, wedding, wedding ceremony, matrimony, spousal relationship, nuptials, unionmarriagenoun
a close and intimate union
"the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
Synonyms:
married couple, marriage ceremony, wedlock, man and wife, wedding, matrimony, spousal relationship, union
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
marriagenoun
Antonyms:
celibacy, divorce, bachelorhood, maidenhoodSynonyms:
matrimony, wedlock, wedding, nuptials, espousals, nuptial ritesAssociated words:
misogamy, misogamist, affiance, affianced, affinity, intermarriage, conjugality, misalliance, agamist, benedict, betroth, betrothal, desponsory, ante-nuptial, sponsal, hymeneal, schatchen, connubial, connubiality, fiancé, hymen, fiancée, troth, plight, nuptial, nuptiality, postnuptial, morganatic, banns, neogamist, matrimonial
How to use marriage in a sentence?
We are hopeful the Supreme Court will uphold the freedom of the people to affirm marriage.
My wife doesn't disagree with me on my position on marriage. She said she was torn because we have some family members who have some very different views on that. She was torn just because the emotion on the family and because all of the media attention on that. Not because she was torn with me on the position.
Corn pudding is a southern staple made that is the perfect marriage of spoonbread, creamed corn and casserole.
Court Judge Callie V. Granade:
This injunction binds Judge Don Davis and all his officers, agents, servants and employees, and others in active concert or participation with any of them, who would seek to enforce the marriage laws of Alabama which prohibit or fail to recognize same sex marriages.
Chief Justice Roberts seems to be in many cases taking a cautious approach deferential to the legislature, on health care and in his dissent on the marriage case, Roberts was reluctant to disturb decisions by elected officials.
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