quadrupedal

1. 1.

   having four feet

   Synonymsquadrupedfour-footed

   Antonymsbipedal

Questions about quadrupedal

What does quadrupedal mean?

quadrupedal means "having four feet".

How many syllables are in quadrupedal?

quadrupedal has 4 syllables: qua-dru-pe-dal. The stress falls on "dru".

What is another word for quadrupedal?

Close synonyms include quadruped, four-footed. 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.

What is the opposite of quadrupedal?

The recorded antonyms are bipedal.

Is quadrupedal a common word?

quadrupedal 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.