Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Without a mate or partner: Describes a person who lacks a spouse or romantic partner.
   • Not paired or mated: In biology, describes an animal that has not engaged in sexual pairing or reproduction.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • After his divorce, he felt lonely and mateless for several years.
  • The mateless bird continued to sing its solitary song from the highest branch.

Advanced Usage

• "To remain mateless": To continue in a state of being without a partner.
  • Despite societal pressure, she chose to remain mateless and focus on her career.
• "A mateless existence": A life lived without a long-term partner.
  • The novel explores the themes of loneliness in a mateless existence.

Variants and Related Words

• Mate (n/v): A partner, especially a spouse; to pair for breeding.
  • Penguins often mate for life.
• Mated (adj.): Paired or joined, especially in a sexual or partnership context.
  • The mated pair of eagles returned to the same nest each year.

Synonyms

• Unattached: Not married or in a serious romantic relationship.
• Single: Not married or not involved in a stable romantic relationship.
• Unpaired: Not forming one of a matching pair.

Antonyms

• Mated: Having a mate; paired.
• Married: Having a spouse.
• Paired: Forming a set of two.

Adjective

1. of someone who has no marriage partner
2. not mated sexually