You queried:

adultery "

Results retrieved for:
    • \ ə-ˈdəl-t(ə-)rē \

    Your query is not considered offensive by any official sources.

    ( some results may take a moment to update )


    [Noun]  | "adul*tery" | \ ə-ˈdəl-t(ə-)rē \


    1: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than that person's current spouse; also : an act of adultery


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English adultrye, adultery, alteration (conformed to Latin adulterium) of avoutrie, advoutrie, alteration (with addition of suffix -ie {see: |-y:2|-y:2}) of avoutre, borrowed from Anglo-French avulteire, avouteire, going back to Latin adulterium, from adulterāre "to defile by adultery, commit adultery with, pollute" + -ium deverbal noun suffix {mat|adulterate:1|};

    [Noun]  | "adultery" 


    1: a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse;


      * e.g., " ... adultery is the cause of many divorces "





     [ "adultery" ]

    1: A married person sleeping with somebody other then their SO, whether or not the other partner knows about it.

      * e.g.,  ... Sleeping with a married couple is adultery on the part of all three people. 

     [ "adultery" ]

    1: Adultery is behaving like an adult in a primal sense.

      * e.g.,  ... Some consider adultery as a potentially dishonest sexual act, and use verbs such as commit. ie She committed adultery. Some consider adultery in the same sense as a greeting or a handshake, and simply behaving like an adult. Hence the word ADULTery. 

     [ "adultery" ]

    1: The ultimate act of betrayal and dishonesty against your spouse by sleeping with someone else or as they say "parking your car in another woman's garage."

      * e.g.,  ... Adultery is wrong, wrong, wrong with a capital-W! 


     [ "adultery" ]

    2: As wrong as adultery is, its primary cause is one of the married partners not reciving something they need emoptionally or physically from their spouse.

     [ "adultery" ]

    1: chat rooms are known for harboring married people looking

      * e.g.,  ... Hi: my name is marshall 


     [ "adultery" ]

    2: for sex on the side. Generally, the single babe or guy has no problems with fucking a married person since if they are in chat rooms - both are losers.

      * e.g.,  ... Hi: my name is robin 

     [ "adultery" ]

    1: the way to hint at a need for more sexual excitement in a serious relationship

     [ "adultery" ]

    1: When a woman cheats on a man that she is in a relationship with. Men never cheat though, they only make new "friends"

      * e.g.,  ... I came home one day to find my wife with another man. She said it was payback for me cheating. I said i just made a new friend and she is the adulterer. So she committed adultery 

     [ "adultery" ]

    1: insemination of any form, inclusive of artificial insemination.

      * e.g.,  ... God committed adultery as evidenced by the birth of Jesus. He thus violated his own commandment. Bastard. 

     [ "Adultery" ]

    1: Cheating. Straight up cheating on your wife or husband. Simple as that. Now go read a book.

      * e.g.,  ... Y'all seriously couldn't have just googled adultery? 

     [ "Adultery" ]

    1: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her lawful spouse.

      * e.g.,  ... Mahfouz Al-Khouri committed adultery after he beat his wife and brought a Syrian prostitute to live with him. 

     [ "Adultery" ]

    1: Growing into an adult, maturing.

      * e.g.,  ... "We all have to go through adultery eventually" -patton sanders 

     No results from Words API...

     No results from Linguatools Conjugations API...

     No results from Words API...

     No results from Word Associations API...


    * Query The Library of Babel *
    * Query Wikipedia *
    * Query Google *

    * Discuss! *


    You must be signed in to post comments!


    Top comments for:
    "adultery"