cloven-footed

1. 1.

   of or relating to the cloven feet of ruminants or swine

   Synonymscloven-hoofed

Questions about cloven-footed

What does cloven-footed mean?

cloven-footed means "of or relating to the cloven feet of ruminants or swine".

How many syllables are in cloven-footed?

cloven-footed has 4 syllables and divides as clo-ven--foo-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cloven-footed?

Close synonyms include cloven-hoofed. 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 cloven-footed a common word?

cloven-footed 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.