English dictionary

adultery

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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations

noun.act

Examples
Adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce.

Synonyms criminal conversation fornication

Source: WordNet 3.0
The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

noun

Source: webster1913