monogamous
adjUK /məˈnɒɡəməs/ · US /məˈnɑɡəməs/
Etymology From mono- + -gamous.
1
Involving marriage to one person at a time.
- Suppose, for example, that if polygamy were legal, 10 percent of adult men would take an average of three wives apiece and that all remaining marriages would be monogamous.2006 March 16, Robert H. Frank, “Polygamy and the Marriage Market: Who Would Have the Upper Hand?”, in The New York Times:
2
Of a relationship Characterized by mutual sexual and romantic exclusivity.
3
Of a person Exclusively engaging in mutually exclusive sexual/romantic partnership.
- Derived terms
- monogamish, monogamously, monogamousness, nonmonogamous, trinogamous
- Related terms
- monogamy, polygamous