marital

[mar-i-tl]

1. of or relating to marriage; conjugal; matrimonial.

   marital vows; marital discord.

2. Archaic.,  of or relating to a husband.

marital

/ ˈmærɪtəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to marriage

   marital status

2. of or relating to a husband

Other Word Forms

• maritally adverb
• nonmarital adjective
• nonmaritally adverb
• postmarital adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of marital¹

1595–1605; < Latin marītālis of married people, derivative of marītus of marriage. See marry ¹, -al ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of marital¹

C17: from Latin marītālis, from marītus married (adj), husband (n); related to mās male

Example Sentences

Real income has risen for people across all age brackets and marital statuses, and as more women entered the workforce, men did not lose out.

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If your father and his wife co-owned the home they sold, those funds would be deemed community or marital property and, as such, would be out of the reach of your father’s children.

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Our son and his wife, who are in their 30s with a child in preschool, are having marital problems and she may have a spending problem.

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Sources told TMZ that the “Somebody Like You” singer, who spoke publicly in the past about marital tensions, allegedly found romance with another woman amid the separation.

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Numerous flashbacks include Lobb’s diary entries, which lay bare his marital infidelity and family abandonment for a second marriage to a woman not much older than his children.

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Related Words

• matrimonial 
• wedded