Need another word that means the same as “adultery”? Find 9 synonyms and 30 related words for “adultery” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Adultery” are: criminal conversation, fornication, unfaithfulness, infidelity, falseness, disloyalty, cuckoldry, extramarital sex, extramarital relations
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “adultery” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| criminal conversation | Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
| cuckoldry | The practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women. |
| disloyalty | The quality of not being loyal to a person, country, or organization; unfaithfulness. An accusation of disloyalty and betrayal. |
| extramarital relations | An act of narration. |
| extramarital sex | The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles. |
| falseness | The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical. |
| fornication | Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations. Laws forbidding adultery and fornication. |
| infidelity | The action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner. Her infidelity continued after her marriage. |
| unfaithfulness | The quality of being unfaithful. |
| affair | Matters of public interest and importance. The board admitted responsibility for the affair. |
| alimony | Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated. He is said to have paid 300 000 alimony to his first wife. |
| amour | A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship. He is enraged at this revelation of his past amours. |
| bigamist | Someone who marries one person while already legally married to another. |
| bigamy | The offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred. |
| cheat | An act of cheating a fraud or deception. She cheated death in a spectacular crash. |
| cheating | Violating accepted standards or rules. |
| cohabit | Coexist. Animals that can cohabit with humans thrive. |
| conjugal | Of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband. Conjugal loyalty. |
| dishonesty | A fraudulent or deceitful act. The dismissal of thirty civil servants for dishonesty and misconduct. |
| disloyal | Failing to be loyal to a person, country, or organization to which one has obligations. Disloyal mutterings about his leadership. |
| divorce | Get a divorce formally terminate a marriage. A desire to divorce myself from history. |
| estranged | (of a person) no longer close or affectionate to someone; alienated. Her estranged father. |
| ex | A man who was formerly a certain woman’s husband. All his exes live in Texas. |
| husband | Use (resources) economically. She husbanded their financial resources through difficult times. |
| inconstant | (of a person or their behaviour) not faithful and dependable. The exact dimensions aren t easily measured since they are inconstant. |
| infidelity | Disbelief in a particular religion, especially Christianity. Her infidelity continued after her marriage. |
| married | A person who is married. A married couple. |
| marry | Perform a marriage ceremony. Eric asked me to marry him. |
| morganatic | Relating to or denoting a marriage in which neither the spouse of lower rank, nor any children, have any claim to the possessions or title of the spouse of higher rank. He contracted a morganatic marriage with a German born actress. |
| newlywed | Someone recently married. |
| perfidious | Deceitful and untrustworthy. A perfidious lover. |
| perfidy | Betrayal of a trust. It was an example of his perfidy. |
| polygamist | A person who has more than one wife or husband at the same time. Polygamist communities. |
| polygamy | Having more than one spouse at a time. |
| spouse | A person’s partner in marriage. |
| suitor | A prospective buyer of a business or corporation. She decided to marry her suitor. |
| unfaithful | Having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend. She felt that to sell the house would be unfaithful to her parents memory. |
| wed | Take in marriage. They wed a week after meeting. |
| wife | The wife of a person with a specified occupation. He and his wife are keen gardeners. |
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