big-shouldered

1. 1.

   having broad shoulders

   “big-shouldered and heavy-armed”

   Synonymsbroad-shoulderedsquare-shouldered

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Questions about big-shouldered

What does big-shouldered mean?

big-shouldered means "having broad shoulders".

How many syllables are in big-shouldered?

big-shouldered has 3 syllables: big--shoul-dered. The stress falls on "big-".

What is another word for big-shouldered?

Close synonyms include broad-shouldered, square-shouldered. 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 big-shouldered a common word?

big-shouldered 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.