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say it: eks
ex is a noun and adjective meaning "a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet
out of fashion
“a suit of rather antique appearance”
“demode (or outmoded) attire”
“outmoded ideas”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ex come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.