Synonyms for nubile

Grammar : Adj

Spell : noo-bil, -bahyl, nyoo-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnu bɪl, -baɪl, ˈnyu-

Top 10 synonyms for nubile

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Définition of nubile

Origin : 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.

As in bridal : adj concerning marriage
As in full-grown/full-fledged : adj developed, ripe, ready

Example sentences :

I got a picture of a nubile waif, too freakish to fit where she'd been raised.
Extract from : « Vigorish » by Gordon Randall Garrett

All women of that category are Nupa, or nubile, as far as this man goes.
Extract from : « Social Origins and Primal Law » by Andrew Lang

Every nubile maid (koshimoto) in the yashiki was a candidate for concubinage.
Extract from : « The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari » by James S. De Benneville

Such was the ideal of wifely purity in an isle where nubile virgins went naked as in paradise.
Extract from : « In the South Seas » by Robert Louis Stevenson

But shall we find in France a country where the proportion of births to the number of nubile women is greater than in our own?
Extract from : « The Education of American Girls » by Anna Callender Brackett

Scatter flowers, or other missile oblations, profusely, you nubile virgins.
Extract from : « Barren Honour: A Novel » by George A. Lawrence

I am barely of nubile age, and yet I was not half so old on the day I saw you for the first time.
Extract from : « Ancient Manners » by Pierre Louys

She couldn't have been more than eighteen and her figure was nubile in its firm flesh and flowing contours.
Extract from : « Painted Veils » by James Huneker

She demands flatly the Sisyphus take along at least fifty "nubile females in order to restock the world after its reconquest."
Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore

The girl's pure face was the picture of nubile candor, and her eyes met fairly the shock of the other's quick glance.
Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker

Antonyms for nubile

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