unbridegroomlike

adjective

Not bridegroomlike.

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Meanings

adjectiveunbridegroomlike (comparative more unbridegroomlike, superlative most unbridegroomlike)

comparative more unbridegroomlike · superlative most unbridegroomlike

  1. datedNot bridegroomlike.

    Then the bridegroom came slowly up the walk, wearing a very unbridegroomlike aspect, […]

    1870, Marion Harland, Helen Gardner's Wedding-day, page 139
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    Shaking himself from his wife, Monk traversed the passages from the chapel to the tower of the fortress alone in a very unbridegroomlike way to his apartment, […]

    1844, Hampton Court; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled, page 247

    Earl Richard's unbridegroomlike behaviour on his wedding night, and his agreeable discovery on the morrow, will remind the ballad reader of the gentle Sir Gawaine, […]

    1846, William Motherwell, Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, page 251

Origin

From un- + bridegroomlike.

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APA

unbridegroomlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbridegroomlike

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“unbridegroomlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbridegroomlike. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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