sharp-nosed

1. 1.

   having a sharply pointed nose

   Similarnosed

Questions about sharp-nosed

What does sharp-nosed mean?

sharp-nosed means "having a sharply pointed nose".

How many syllables are in sharp-nosed?

sharp-nosed has 2 syllables and divides as sharp--nosed 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 sharp-nosed a common word?

sharp-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.