Usually means: Excessively devoted or submissive to wife.
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  1. uxorious: Merriam-Webster
  2. uxorious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uxorious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uxorious: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. uxorious: Wordnik
  7. uxorious: Wiktionary
  8. uxorious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. uxorious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. uxorious: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. uxorious: Dictionary.com
  12. uxorious: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  14. uxorious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. uxorious: Rhymezone
  16. uxorious: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Uxorious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. uxorious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. uxorious: FreeDictionary.org
  20. uxorious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. uxorious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. uxorious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. uxorious: A Word A Day
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▸ adjective:  Very devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife; exessive uxorial devotion

Similar:
loving, married, spousely, wifey, wifely, husbandly, faithful, housewifelike, housewifely, housewifish, more...

Opposite:
aloof, detached, uninvolved, unattached

Types:
devoted, loving, obedient, obsequious, submissive, more...
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Similar:
loving, married, spousely, wifey, wifely, husbandly, faithful, housewifelike, housewifely, housewifish, more...

Opposite:
aloof, detached, uninvolved, unattached

Types:
devoted, loving, obedient, obsequious, submissive, more...



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