connubial
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Definition of connubial
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of or relating to the state of being married.
“"For my part," continued the Duke of Wharton, "I hold that the connubial system of this country is a complete mistake. The only happy marriages I ever heard of are those in some Eastern story I once read, where the king marries a new wife every night, and cuts off her head in the morning."”
“Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.”
“A lady, wearing a plumed hat, and her dark-spectacled husband were sitting in connubial silence on the davenport; […]”
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Etymology
1650s, from Latin connūbiālis, from connūbium (“marriage, wedlock”) (variants of cōnūbiālis (“pertaining to wedlock”), from cōnūbium (“marriage, wedlock”)) from com- (“together”) (English com-) + nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”) (from which nubile) from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”).
Words you can make from connubial
146 playable · top: ABOULIC (11 pts)
Best play aboulic 11 points7-letter words
4 words6-letter words
12 words5-letter words
25 words4-letter words
49 words- BANC 8 pts
- BLOC 8 pts
- CLUB 8 pts
- BAIL 6 pts
- BANI 6 pts
- BLIN 6 pts
- BOIL 6 pts
- BOLA 6 pts
- BUNA 6 pts
- BUNN 6 pts
- CAIN 6 pts
- CALO 6 pts
- CAUL 6 pts
- CIAO 6 pts
- CION 6 pts
- CLAN 6 pts
- CLON 6 pts
- COAL 6 pts
- COIL 6 pts
- COIN 6 pts
- COLA 6 pts
- CONI 6 pts
- CONN 6 pts
- ICON 6 pts
- LAIC 6 pts
- LOCA 6 pts
- LOCI 6 pts
- OBIA 6 pts
- UNCI 6 pts
- UNCO 6 pts
- ANIL 4 pts
- ANON 4 pts
- LAIN 4 pts
- LINN 4 pts
- LINO 4 pts
- LION 4 pts
- LOAN 4 pts
- LOIN 4 pts
- LUNA 4 pts
- NAIL 4 pts
- NANO 4 pts
- NAOI 4 pts
- NOIL 4 pts
- NONA 4 pts
- NONI 4 pts
- NOUN 4 pts
- ULAN 4 pts
- ULNA 4 pts
- UNAI 4 pts
3-letter words
38 words- CAB 7 pts
- COB 7 pts
- CUB 7 pts
- ALB 5 pts
- BAL 5 pts
- BAN 5 pts
- BIN 5 pts
- BIO 5 pts
- BOA 5 pts
- BUN 5 pts
- CAL 5 pts
- CAN 5 pts
- COL 5 pts
- CON 5 pts
- LAB 5 pts
- LAC 5 pts
- LIB 5 pts
- LOB 5 pts
- LOC 5 pts
- NAB 5 pts
- NIB 5 pts
- NOB 5 pts
- NUB 5 pts
- OBA 5 pts
- OBI 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- AIL 3 pts
- AIN 3 pts
- ANI 3 pts
- INN 3 pts
- ION 3 pts
- LIN 3 pts
- LUN 3 pts
- NAN 3 pts
- NIL 3 pts
- NUN 3 pts
- OIL 3 pts
- UNI 3 pts
2-letter words
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