Dictionary

uxorious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ʌkˈsɔɹ.i.əs/ (General-American)
• /ʌkˈsɔːɹ.i.əs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ʌɡˈzɔɹ.i.əs/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin uxōrius (“of or pertaining to a wife”), from uxor (“wife”) + -ious.

Meanings

1. Very devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife; showing excessive uxorial devotion.
   • But Daylight was not unduly uxorious. He lived his man's life just as she lived her woman's life. 1910 October, Jack London, Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
   • She was the cross her cuckolded, incompatible husband had to bear, and he was—beneath those fantastic uniforms—the pathetic, uxorious human aggregate of love and good intentions, which, quite frankly, bored her most of the time. 1991 October 12, The Advertiser:
   • The king, who was a most uxorious husband, at first ridiculed the notion, but at length consented, as he did to everything else on which her majesty had set her heart. 1872, Samuel Butler, chapter XXIV, in Erewhon […] , London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 226:
   • People smiled a little when Sir Andrew Ffoulkes' name was mentioned, some called him effeminate, others uxorious, his fond attachment for his pretty little wife was thought to pass the bounds of decorum. 1908, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Elusive Pimpernel, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC:
   • Mr. Watkins Tottle was a rather uncommon compound of strong uxorious inclinations, and an unparalleled degree of anti-connubial timidity. 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume II, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, pages 1–2:
   • Throughout his wanderings, the uxorious Odysseus clings to a little doll figure, intended to represent his wife (like the spinning top clutched by Leonardo di Caprio in Inception); the real woman is barely more interesting. 2026 August 13, Emily Wilson, “An Uncomplicated Man”, in London Review of Books:
   • In truth, Richard was a fond—almost an uxorious husband. 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume IV (The Talisman), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 129:
   • With theſe in troop Came Aſtoreth, whom the Phœnicians call'd Aſtarte, Queen of Heav'n, with creſcent Horns; To whoſ,e bright Image nightly by the Moon Sidonian Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, In Sion alſo not unſung, where ſtood Her Temple on th' offensive Mountain, built By that uxorious King, whoſe heart though large, Beguil'd by fair Idolatreſſes, fell To Idols foul. 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 437–446:

Forms

Coordinates

maritorious · whipped

Deriveds

uxoriously · uxoriousness · uxorial · unuxorious

Relateds

uxoricide

Synonyms

doting

Translations (14)

sh papučarski (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · fi vaimoonsa kiintynyt (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · es calzonazos (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · es pollerudo (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · ru подкаблу́чный (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · es pisado (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · es macabeo (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · fr uxorieux (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · pl pod pantoflem (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · es mandilón (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · es saco largo (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · tr hanımcı (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · fi vaimolleen alistuva (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife) · es mangoneado (Very devoted and/or submissive to one's wife)