hunchbacked

1. 1.

   characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column

   Synonymscrookbackcrookbackedhumpedhumpbackedgibbouskyphotic

   Similarunfit

Other forms of hunchbacked

comparative

hunchbackedder·

superlative

hunchbackeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

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: hunch-backed. The stress falls on "hunch".

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.