hunchbacked

Questions about hunchbacked

What does hunchbacked mean?

hunchbacked means "characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column".

How many syllables are in hunchbacked?

hunchbacked has 2 syllables and divides as hunch-backed 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.

What is another word for hunchbacked?

Close synonyms include crookback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, gibbous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hunchbacked a common word?

hunchbacked 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.