aquiline

1. 1.

   curved down like an eagle's beak

   Synonymshooked

   Similarcrooked

Questions about aquiline

What does aquiline mean?

aquiline means "curved down like an eagle's beak".

How many syllables are in aquiline?

aquiline has 3 syllables: aq-ui-line. The stress falls on "aq".

What is another word for aquiline?

Close synonyms include hooked. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aquiline a common word?

aquiline is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.