bigamist

1. 1.

   someone who marries one person while already legally married to another

   Broaderspouse

Other forms of bigamist

plural

bigamists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bigamist

What does bigamist mean?

bigamist means "someone who marries one person while already legally married to another".

How many syllables are in bigamist?

bigamist has 3 syllables: bi-ga-mist. The stress falls on "bi".

Is bigamist a common word?

bigamist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.