spouseless

English

Etymology

From Middle English spouselees, spowseles; equivalent to spouse +‎ -less.

Adjective

spouseless (not comparable)

1. Without a spouse; unmarried.
   • 2007 February 11, Byron Calame, “Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But the new majority materialized only because The Times chose to use survey data that counted, as spouseless women, teenagers 15 through 17 — almost 90 percent of whom were living with their parents.