frost-bound

1. 1.

   (of the ground) made hard by frost

   Similarfrozen

Questions about frost-bound

What does frost-bound mean?

frost-bound means "(of the ground) made hard by frost".

How many syllables are in frost-bound?

frost-bound has 2 syllables: frost--bound. The stress falls on "frost-".

Is frost-bound a common word?

frost-bound 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.