widowed
adj.adj. describing a person whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again.
adj. having lost a spouse through death and not subsequently remarried. Often used as a participial adjective following a linking verb or preceding a noun.
The widowed woman lives in a small house by the sea.
After her husband passed away last winter, she found comfort in a local support group for widowed residents.
The novel explores the quiet dignity of a widowed professor who spends his retirement years cataloging the extensive library he and his late wife built together.
Often follows linking verbs like 'be', 'become', or 'remain'.
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