Unpartnered

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without a partner. not-comparable

    "The novelist Anita Brookner, a shrewder handicapper of the luck of unpartnered women, tested that proposition in her Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel “Hotel du Lac,” in which a bloodless man tries to bully a woman into settling for him."

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"The novelist Anita Brookner, a shrewder handicapper of the luck of unpartnered women, tested that proposition in her Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel “Hotel du Lac,” in which a bloodless man tries to bully a woman into settling for him."

Etymology

From un- + partnered.

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