premarital

1. 1.

   relating to events before a marriage

   “prenuptial agreement”

   Synonymsprenuptialantenuptial

Questions about premarital

What does premarital mean?

premarital means "relating to events before a marriage".

How many syllables are in premarital?

premarital has 4 syllables: pre-mar-i-tal. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /pɹiˈmɛɹətəl/.

What is another word for premarital?

Close synonyms include prenuptial, antenuptial. 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 premarital a common word?

premarital 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.