double-barreled

Questions about double-barreled

What does double-barreled mean?

double-barreled means "having two barrels mounted side by side". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in double-barreled?

double-barreled has 4 syllables: dou-ble-bar-re-led. The stress falls on "ble-bar".

What is another word for double-barreled?

Close synonyms include double-barrelled, double-barrelled. 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 double-barreled?

The recorded antonyms are single-barreled.

Is double-barreled a common word?

double-barreled 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.