lantern-jawed

1. 1.

   having a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance

   Similarprognathous

Questions about lantern-jawed

What does lantern-jawed mean?

lantern-jawed means "having a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance".

How many syllables are in lantern-jawed?

lantern-jawed has 3 syllables and divides as lan-tern--jawed 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 lantern-jawed a common word?

lantern-jawed 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.