uxorious

[uhk-sawr-ee-uhs, -sohr-, uhg-zawr-, -zohr-]

adjective

1. doting upon, foolishly fond of, or affectionately submissive toward one's wife.

uxorious

/ ʌkˈsɔːrɪəs /

adjective

1. excessively attached to or dependent on one's wife

Other Word Forms

• uxoriously adverb
• uxoriousness noun
• unuxorious adjective
• unuxoriously adverb
• unuxoriousness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of uxorious¹

1590–1600; < Latin ūxōrius, equivalent to ūxor wife + -ius -ious

Word History and Origins

Origin of uxorious¹

C16: from Latin uxōrius concerning a wife, from uxor wife

Example Sentences

With insight and aplomb, Roberts completes his mission, revealing the king to have been a conventional, conservative gentleman, uxorious husband and father of 15.

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He was a famously uxorious husband said to have preyed upon his actresses and assistants.

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He felt a flush of achievement, at how easily fiancée had slipped out of him, a sign of future uxorious bliss.

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Perhaps the least successful part of the film is that which is most easily forgotten: the sad, slightly whimsically uxorious tale of Woody Harrelson and his wife, played by Abbie Cornish.

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Hanks is famously uxorious, and his reliability as an actor is something that, from his first marriage at the age of 21, he has pegged to the stability of his home life.

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