edentulate

1. 1.

   having few if any teeth

   “anteaters are edentate animals”

   Synonymsedentaledentate

   Similartoothless

Questions about edentulate

What does edentulate mean?

edentulate means "having few if any teeth".

How many syllables are in edentulate?

edentulate has 4 syllables: e-den-tu-late. The stress falls on "den".

What is another word for edentulate?

Close synonyms include edental, edentate. 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 edentulate a common word?

edentulate 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.