downward-arching

1. 1.

   curving downward

   Similardescending

Questions about downward-arching

What does downward-arching mean?

downward-arching means "curving downward".

How many syllables are in downward-arching?

downward-arching has 4 syllables: down-war-d-ar-ching. The stress falls on "war".

Is downward-arching a common word?

downward-arching 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.