adulteressnoun [ C ]
uk/əˈdʌl.tə.rəs/us/əˈdʌl.tɚ.əs/a female adulterer
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- civil partnership
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- involvement
- marriage equality
- marriage guidance
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- matrimonial
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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Examples from literature
- But she will be living as an adulteress with an adulterer.
- He speaks kindly to the adulteress.
- One is astonished that Othello should not be startled, nay thunder-struck, when he hears such dying words coming from the lips of an obdurate adulteress.
- She is supposed to have been an adulteress and a murderess.