uxorious

1. 1.

   foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife

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Questions about uxorious

What does uxorious mean?

uxorious means "foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife".

How many syllables are in uxorious?

uxorious has 4 syllables and divides as ux-o-ri-ous 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.

Is uxorious a common word?

uxorious 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.