bow legs

Questions about bow legs

What is another word for bow legs?

It depends which bow legs you mean. In the sense “outward curvature of the legs”, the synonyms are bow leg, bandy legs. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bow legs?

WordNet records no antonym for bow legs. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bow legs come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bow legs

• Full entry for bow legsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bow legsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.