adulterine

1. 1.

   conceived in adultery

   Similarillegitimate

Questions about adulterine

What does adulterine mean?

adulterine means "conceived in adultery".

How many syllables are in adulterine?

adulterine has 4 syllables: a-dul-te-rine. The stress falls on "dul".

Is adulterine a common word?

adulterine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.