spouseless
adjEtymology From Middle English spouselees, spowseles; equivalent to spouse + -less.
1
Without a spouse; unmarried.
- But the new majority materialized only because The Times chose to use survey data that counted, as spouseless women, teenagers 15 through 17 — almost 90 percent of whom were living with their parents.2007 February 11, Byron Calame, “Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- spouselessness