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

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