hook-nosed

1. 1.

   having an aquiline nose

   Similarnosed

Questions about hook-nosed

What does hook-nosed mean?

hook-nosed means "having an aquiline nose".

How many syllables are in hook-nosed?

hook-nosed has 2 syllables: hook--nosed. The stress falls on "hook-".

Is hook-nosed a common word?

hook-nosed 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.