According to many religions, adultery is a crime.
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Adultery
//əˈdʌltəɹi//
Synonyms for "adultery" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
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2 entriesRelated terms
10 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
1 entriescauses
1 entriescauses desire
1 entriesderived
3 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
Translations
134 translations across 71 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- egbreek noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- overspel noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μοιχεία noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Arabic
4 entries- خِيانة زَوْجِيَّة noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- زِنىً noun (lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment)
- زِنَا المُحْصَنَيْن noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- زِنَاء noun (lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment)
Armenian
1 entries- դավաճանություն noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
2 entries- ܓܲܝܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- ܙܵܢܝܘܼܬܵܐ noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Asturian
1 entries- adulteriu noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Belarusian
4 entries- адзюльтэ́р noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- пералю́б noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- пралюбадзе́йства noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- шлю́бная здра́да noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Bulgarian
1 entries- прелюбодея́ние noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Catalan
1 entries- adulteri noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏓᏲᏁᎯ noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 不倫之戀 /不伦之恋 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- 外遇 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- 奸情 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- 姦淫 /奸淫 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Cornish
1 entries- avoutri noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Czech
2 entries- cizoložství noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- manželská nevěra noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Danish
1 entries- utroskab noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Dutch
2 entries- echtbreuk noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- overspel noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Esperanto
2 entries- adulto noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- adulto noun (lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment)
Finnish
4 entries- aviorikos noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- aviorikos noun (lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment)
- aviorikos noun (faithlessness in religion; as used in Jeremiah 3:9)
- haureus noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
French
1 entries- adultère noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Galician
1 entries- adulterio noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Georgian
4 entries- ადიულტერი noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- მრუშობა noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- სიძვა noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- ღალატი noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
German
1 entries- Ehebruch noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌷𐍉𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍃𐌿𐍃 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Greek
1 entries- μοιχεία noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- adiltè noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Hebrew
1 entries- ניאוף \ נֵאוּף noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Hungarian
1 entries- házasságtörés noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Icelandic
1 entries- hjúskaparbrot noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Ido
1 entries- adultero noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Indonesian
1 entries- zina noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Irish
1 entries- adhaltranas noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Italian
1 entries- adulterio noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Japanese
4 entries- .婚外性交 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- 不倫 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- 姦淫 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- 姦淫 noun (lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment)
Korean
2 entries- 간통 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- 불륜 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Latin
1 entries- adulterium noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Lithuanian
1 entries- neištikimybė noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Macedonian
1 entries- прељуба noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Malay
2 entries- mukah noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- zina noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Māori
4 entries- moe pūremu noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- pūremu noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- toukohi noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- tōkohi noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- zina noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Norwegian
1 entries- hor noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- utroskap noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Occitan
1 entries- adultèri noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- съничьство noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Old English
2 entries- unrihthǣmed noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- ǣwbryċe noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Old Irish
1 entries- adaltras noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- زنا noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- زنا noun (lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment)
Persian
4 entries- روسپیگری noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- زنا noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- زنای محصنه noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- پلیدکاری noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Ehebruch noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Polish
2 entries- cudzołóstwo noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- zdrada małżeńska noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Portuguese
1 entries- adultério noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Romagnol
2 entries- adultéri noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- adultéri noun (lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment)
Romanian
1 entries- adulter noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Russian
4 entries- адюльте́р noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- прелюбодея́ние noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- прелюбодея́ние noun (lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment)
- супру́жеская изме́на noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- adhaltranas noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- brakolomstvo noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- preljub noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- preljuba noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- браколомство noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Slovak
2 entries- cudzoložstvo noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- manželská nevera noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Slovene
2 entries- prešuštvo noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- zakonolom noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Spanish
1 entries- adulterio noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Swahili
1 entries- zinaa noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Swedish
2 entries- hor noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- äktenskapsbrott noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Tagalog
2 entries- pakikiapid noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- pangangalunya noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Telugu
1 entries- వ్యభిచారము noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Thai
1 entries- การทำชู้ noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Turkish
1 entries- zina noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Ukrainian
4 entries- адюльте́р noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- перелю́бство noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- подру́жня зра́да noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- подру́жня неві́рність noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Uyghur
1 entries- زىنا noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Uzbek
1 entries- zino noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngoại tình noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Welsh
1 entries- godineb noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Yao
2 entries- cijama class 7 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
- cikululu class 7 noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Yiddish
1 entries- נואף noun (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The crime of adultery was abolished in 1947.
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Adolescence is the stage between puberty and adultery.
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The penis is what commits adultery.
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