unpartnered

English

Etymology

un- +‎ partnered

Adjective

unpartnered (not comparable)

1. Without a partner.

   Synonym: single

   • 2008 June 1, Liesl Schillinger, “Romance Languages”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The novelist Anita Brookner, a shrewder handicapper of the luck of unpartnered women, tested that proposition in her Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel “Hotel du Lac,” in which a bloodless man tries to bully a woman into settling for him.

   • 2021 October 21, Charles M. Blow, quoting Pew Research Center, “The Married Will Soon Be the Minority”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     […] all of the growth in the unpartnered population since 1990 has come from a rise in the number who have never been married.

Anagrams

• underparent