uxorial

1. 1.

   befitting or characteristic of a wife

   Synonymswifelywifelike

Questions about uxorial

What does uxorial mean?

uxorial means "befitting or characteristic of a wife".

How many syllables are in uxorial?

uxorial has 4 syllables and divides as ux-o-ri-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for uxorial?

Close synonyms include wifely, wifelike. 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 uxorial a common word?

uxorial 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.