uxorious

American  

[uhk-sawr-ee-uhs, -sohr-, uhg-zawr-, -zohr-] / ʌkˈsɔr i əs, -ˈsoʊr-, ʌgˈzɔr-, -ˌzoʊr- /

adjective

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

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uxorious British  

/ ʌkˈsɔːrɪəs /

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of uxorious

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

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.

From Washington Post

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

From Literature

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.

From The Guardian

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.

From The Guardian

They are skeptical of fancy talk about global leadership, and they despise the uxorious American elite, who have in turn abandoned them.

From New York Times