ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Wifeless

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Wifeless is an adjective meaning Having no wife; unmarried or celibate.

Meaning

Having no wife; unmarried or celibate.

More Meanings

  1. Without a wife present.

Example Sentences

I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?
I at once telephoned. The Shades were out, said the cheeky ancillula, an obnoxious little fan who came to cook for them on Sundays and no doubt dreamt of getting the old poet to cuddle her some wifeless day.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wiveless, unmarried, wivesless, spouseless, unspoused, husbandless.

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