heavy-armed

1. 1.

   having massive arms

   “he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed”

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Questions about heavy-armed

What does heavy-armed mean?

heavy-armed means "having massive arms".

How many syllables are in heavy-armed?

heavy-armed has 3 syllables and divides as hea-vy-ar-med under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is heavy-armed a common word?

heavy-armed 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.