widowed

1. 1.

   single because of death of the spouse

   Similarunmarried

Other forms of widowed

comparative

widowedder·

superlative

widoweddest·

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.

Questions about widowed

What does widowed mean?

widowed means "single because of death of the spouse".

How many syllables are in widowed?

widowed has 2 syllables: widow-ed. The stress falls on "widow". In IPA it is /ˈwɪdoʊd/.

Is widowed a common word?

widowed is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.