monogamous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (used of relationships and of individuals) having one mate

   Monogamous marriage.

2. 2
   adj

   Involving marriage to one person at a time.

   Suppose, for example, that if polygamy were legal, 10 percent of adult men would take an average of three wives apiece and that all remaining marriages would be monogamous.

3. 3
   adj

   Characterized by mutual sexual and romantic exclusively.

4. 4
   adj

   Exclusively engaging in mutually exclusive sexual/romantic partnership.

From mono- + -gamous.

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