adulterous
/əˈdʌlt(ə)rəs
/adjective
Of or involving adultery: an adulterous affair...
- It turns out that Hermanus is an adulterous hotbed of extramarital affairs.
- And for a man who for so long struggled to find fulfilment in love - even in an adulterous affair - the loss of the illusion might be hard to bear.
- He was the result of an adulterous wartime affair.
Synonyms
unfaithful, faithless, disloyal, untrue, inconstant, fickle, flighty, unreliable, untrustworthy, false, false-hearted, deceiving, deceitful, treacherous, traitorous;
extramarital
informal cheating, two-timing
Derivatives
adulterously
- He perceives her as a woman who as a child saw her father adulterously kiss a neighbor.
- George is already kicking over the traces - spending too much, drinking too much, gambling too much and, as Amelia dare not admit to herself, consorting adulterously with other women.
- A heterosexually oriented celibate will sin adulterously with a married woman or be guilty of fornication with an unmarried one.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from the obsolete noun adulter 'adulterer' (see adultery) + -ous.