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bigamous

[ big-uh-muhs ]

adjective

  1. having two wives or husbands at the same time; guilty of bigamy.
  2. involving bigamy.


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Other Words From

  • biga·mous·ly adverb
  • un·biga·mous adjective
  • un·biga·mous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bigamous1

1860–65; < Late Latin bigamus, equivalent to bi- bi- 1 + Greek -gamos -gamous
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Example Sentences

Grayson is the second prominent Democrat in the past two centuries to be accused of being in a bigamous marriage.

We can do no more, save humbly to recommend your Majesty to enforce the rigours of the law against this bigamous female.'

For unless the indictment sets forth a valid prior marriage it is obvious that the subsequent marriage cannot be bigamous.

Smethursts victim was a Miss Bankes, with whom he had contracted a bigamous marriage.

A bigamous marriage, by the ecclesiastical law of England, is simply void.

Every man to his trade, cries the bigamous cobbler, with shell-bark resonance, and tenaciously sticks to his last.

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