adulterer

From adulter (“to commit adultery”) +‎ -er.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹɚ/

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adulterer (plural adulterers)

2. (loosely) One who commits adultery.

   Synonyms: cheater; see also Thesaurus:libertine

   2. (law, strictly) A spouse who has sex with a non-spouse.

      Coordinate term: fornicator

   • 2009, Garner's Modern American Usage‎^[1], page 22:

     Under the canon-law rule, a married participant is an adulterer and an umarried one is a fornicator.

   2. (nonlegal, loosely) Someone who cheats on their spouse or monogamous significant other.
   4. A male adulterer specifically.

      Coordinate term: adulteress (female counterpart)

      • 2005, The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness‎^[2], page 140:

        I become an adulterer and remain an adulterer when, by choice, I freely adopt the proposal to have sex with someone other than my wife.

      • 2016, Freedom From The Sin of Adultery And Fornication‎^[3], page 110:

        The Word of God says that you, my reader, should be sure that no fornicator or adulterer or adulteress has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

• adulterant

adulterer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adulterō