Dictionary Entry
adultery
adultery is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
- 2noun
Adulteration; corruption.
- 3noun
Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
- 4noun
Faithlessness in religion.
- 5noun
The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
- 6noun
The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
- 7noun
Injury; degradation; ruin.
- 8noun
extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
"adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"
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