nubile

1. 1.

   of girls or women who are eligible to marry

   Synonymsmarriageable

   Similarmature

Questions about nubile

What does nubile mean?

nubile means "of girls or women who are eligible to marry".

How many syllables are in nubile?

nubile has 3 syllables: nu-bi-le. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for nubile?

Close synonyms include marriageable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nubile a common word?

nubile 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.