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Mateless

Mateless \Mate"less\, a. [Cf. Matchless.] Having no mate.

Wiktionary
mateless

a. Without a mate

WordNet
mateless
  1. adj. not mated sexually

  2. of someone who has no marriage partner

Usage examples of "mateless".

Mafia Winsome, mateless, stood undressed before the mirror, contemplating herself and little else.

If I, a mateless bird, have spent an idle hour in teaching lovers how to sing, why, what of that?

Did a race of mateless females descend upon the Earth when man was still almost a cave-dwelling animal?

Todd seemed able and warm-hearted and quite absorbed in her bustling industries, but her distant figure looked mateless and appealing, with something about it that was strangely self-possessed and mysterious.

Profane wandered by the bunkhouse and found a morose Wedge, unusually mateless for the evening.

And Mafia Winsome, mateless, stood undressed before the mirror, contemplating herself and little else.

It is the comparatively weedy weakling, left mateless by polygyny, who objects.

He slumped into the sprung, mateless sofa chair and locked his hands behind his head.

Young wives were loud in praise of domesticity, While you stood lonely like a mateless bird.

Perhaps some day things will be different, since the Methi is mateless.