brachycephalic

Other forms of brachycephalic

plural

brachycephalics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brachycephalic

What does brachycephalic mean?

brachycephalic means "an adult with a short broad head". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brachycephalic?

brachycephalic has 5 syllables: bra-chy-ce-pha-lic. The stress falls on "pha".

What is another word for brachycephalic?

Close synonyms include brachycranial, brachycranic. 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.

What is the opposite of brachycephalic?

The recorded antonyms are dolichocephalic.

Is brachycephalic a common word?

brachycephalic 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.