crookbacked

Questions about crookbacked

What does crookbacked mean?

crookbacked means "characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column".

How many syllables are in crookbacked?

crookbacked has 2 syllables and divides as crookbac-ked 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 crookbacked?

Close synonyms include crookback, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous. 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 crookbacked a common word?

crookbacked 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.