heavy-limbed

1. 1.

   having heavy limbs

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Questions about heavy-limbed

What does heavy-limbed mean?

heavy-limbed means "having heavy limbs".

How many syllables are in heavy-limbed?

heavy-limbed has 4 syllables: hea-vy--lim-bed. The stress falls on "vy-".

Is heavy-limbed a common word?

heavy-limbed 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.