uxorious.

Showing devotion or submission to one’s wife that the speaker regards as excessive.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• an uxorious husband
• uxorious devotion

On the page

The memoir called him uxorious whenever he consulted his wife before deciding.

She questioned whether uxorious described his conduct or the biographer’s resentment.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more uxorious; superlative most uxorious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.