0 a man who has never married and is thought unlikely ever to marry; sometimes used in the past to suggest that a man was gay:
He was the subject of rumours - said to be what was once called "a confirmed bachelor".
During the 1950s this confirmed bachelor met and married an American divorcee.
At that time my father was beginning to be known as a confirmed bachelor, but he met my mother and fell desperately in love.
Though he was occasionally referred to as "a confirmed bachelor", he chose not to "come out" to the general public.
He plays Harry, a confirmed bachelor and ladies' man who despite his own advancing years only dates women under 30.
