Synonyms

widowed

American

[wid-ohd] / ˈwɪd oʊd /

adjective

having lost one’s spouse to death.

The author has created a believably deluded narrator, a popular high school senior who plays football and lives with his widowed father.

noun

Usually the widowed a person or persons who have lost a spouse to death.

How do we offer strength and support to the aging, the widowed, the displaced, and others whose lives have been disrupted?

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of widow.

Other Word Forms

unwidowed adjective

Etymology

Origin of widowed

widow ( def. ) + -ed ³ ( def. )

Example Sentences

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Mr. Underhill was a wealthy insurance executive who had first experimented with Spiritualism when he’d been widowed a few years back.

From Literature

Tracy Morgan stars in Paramount+’s multicam sitcom, a spin-off of CBS’ ‘The Neighborhood,’ and plays a widowed father whose empty nest is disrupted by his adult children’s return.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Hoppy is a retired mechanic who lives in an apartment directly above the widowed Mrs. Silver, the object of his undeclared crush.

From The Wall Street Journal

The widely circulated photographs of the poet in old age make him a perfect visual counterpart to the widowed Queen Victoria, dressed in her perpetual mourning.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bilel Saadoui also worked in a hotel in Sousse and he too went on to marry an English tourist, a widowed hairdresser on holiday with her two young children.

From BBC

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