edentulous

1. 1.

   having lost teeth

   Similartoothless

Questions about edentulous

What does edentulous mean?

edentulous means "having lost teeth".

How many syllables are in edentulous?

edentulous has 4 syllables: e-den-tu-lous. The stress falls on "den".

Is edentulous a common word?

edentulous 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.