UNMARRIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unmarried mean? 

• UNMARRIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNMARRIED has 1 sense:

1. not married or related to the unmarried state

  Familiarity information: UNMARRIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNMARRIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not married or related to the unmarried state

Synonyms:

single; unmarried

Context example:

are you married or single?

Similar:

divorced (of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved)

mateless (of someone who has no marriage partner)

unwed; unwedded (of someone who has not been married)

widowed (single because of death of the spouse)

Also:

unmated (not mated sexually)

Antonym:

married (joined in matrimony)

 Context examples 

I observe that she was unmarried at the time.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

St. John is unmarried: he never will marry now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A courtesy title used before the name of a woman without making a distinction between married and unmarried status.

(Ms, NCI Thesaurus)

But between us, I am convinced there never can be any likeness, except in being unmarried.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He was twenty-seven years of age, unmarried, and a clerk at Woolwich Arsenal.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A courtesy title for an unmarried woman.

(Miss, NCI Thesaurus)

A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Lucas is an unmarried man, thirty-four years of age, and his establishment consists of Mrs. Pringle, an elderly housekeeper, and of Mitton, his valet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Taking that part of the Commons which happened to be nearest to us—for our man was unmarried by this time, and we were out of Court, and strolling past the Prerogative Office—I submitted that I thought the Prerogative Office rather a queerly managed institution.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Unmarried to him, this would never grieve me; but can I let him complete his calculations—coolly put into practice his plans—go through the wedding ceremony?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)