Synonyms of adultery

adultery

noun

ə-ˈdəl-t(ə-)rē 

as in cheating

a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse

adultery is the cause of many divorces

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheating
• misconduct
• infidelity
• treachery
• unfaithfulness
• affaire
• affair
• romance
• promiscuity
• two-timing
• love
• disloyalty
• intrigue
• faithlessness
• perfidy
• criminal conversation
• inconstancy
• infatuation
• falseness
• free love
• fling
• flirtation
• amour
• perfidiousness
• love affair
• entanglement
• attachment
• liaison
• passion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fidelity
• faithfulness
• loyalty
• devotion
• dedication
• allegiance
• constancy
• steadfastness
• fealty
• devotedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of adultery

The flick was a comedic noir that imagined a Hollywood where cartoons and humans live together, and the plot involved murder, adultery, blackmail and other adult topics. —Victoria Edel, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024

She’s getting beheaded for committing adultery with a distant cousin. —Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024

There’s adultery and cuckoldry and suspicions of adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 May 2024

Seems dad’s latest Big Book is, in fact, completely plagiarized from a manuscript, long thought destroyed, written by McNeal’s wife, Harlan’s mother, who committed suicide after discovering her husband’s adultery. —Greg Evans, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024