brachydactylic

1. 1.

   having abnormally short finger or toes

   Synonymsbrachydactylous

   Similarabnormal

Questions about brachydactylic

What does brachydactylic mean?

brachydactylic means "having abnormally short finger or toes".

How many syllables are in brachydactylic?

brachydactylic has 5 syllables: bra-chy-dac-ty-lic. The stress falls on "ty".

What is another word for brachydactylic?

Close synonyms include brachydactylous. 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 brachydactylic a common word?

brachydactylic 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.