All nuptial synonyms
nup·tial
N n noun nuptial
- spousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- affiancing — Present participle of affiance.
- banns — When a minister or priest reads or publishes the banns, he or she makes a public announcement in church that two people are going to be married.
- espousal — An act of adopting or supporting a cause, belief, or way of life.
adjective nuptial
- marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- wedding — the act or ceremony of marrying; marriage; nuptials.
- bridal — Bridal is used to describe something that belongs or relates to a bride, or to both a bride and her bridegroom.
- matrimonial — of or relating to matrimony; marital; nuptial; connubial; conjugal.
- marital — Of or relating to marriage or the relations between husband and wife.
- conjugal — Conjugal means relating to marriage or a married couple's relationship , especially their sexual relationship.
- connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
- married — united in wedlock; wedded: married couples.
- wedded — united in matrimony; married: the wedded couple; a wedded woman.