nubile
pronunciation
How to pronounce nubile in British English:
UK [ˈnju:baɪl]
How to pronounce nubile in American English:
US [ˈnubaɪl]
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- Adjective:
- of girls or women
Word Origin
- nubile
- nubile: [17] In modern English, nubile is generally used as a facetious synonym for ‘sexy, attractive’, but etymologically it means ‘suitable for marriage’. It comes from Latin nūbilis, a derivative of nūbere ‘take a husband’. This has also given English nuptial [15] and connubial [17], and is related to nymph.=> connubial, nuptial, nymph
- nubile (adj.)
- 1640s, "marriageable" (said of a woman), from French nubile (16c.) or directly from Latin nubilis "marriageable," from stem of nubere "take as husband" (see nuptial). In sense of "young and sexually attractive" from 1973. Related: Nubility.
Example
- 1. At sixteen charlotte was like a young nubile goddess , untouched and unopened .
- 2. The husband got a bit irritated and increasingly possessive of his nubile wife .
- 3. Mrs. bennet , in pride and prejudice by jane austen , was worried about finding suitable husbands for her five nubile daughters .
- 4. The baker nazorine pudgy and crusty as his great italian loaves still dusty with flour scowled at his wife his nubile daughter katherine and his baker 's helper enzo .
- 5. We like people to be young , nubile and attractive .