out of wedlock

Speech parts

1. out of wedlock - Adverb

2. out of wedlock - Phrase

Meaning

of biological parents not married to each other

of unwed parents

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

illegitimately outside marriage illegitimate out of the wedlock outside the marriage outside wedlock out of marriage outside of marriage outside a marriage without being married without getting married without marriage without marrying outside of wedlock

Antonyms

legitimately in marriage in wedlock

Examples

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. Emma Goldman

Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired! Mark Driscoll

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. Don Lemon

this child was born illegitimately Source: Internet

he was born out of wedlock Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

out of wedlock

Close letter words and terms

out of turn out of use out of view out of whack out of whole cloth out of wind