soft-nosed

1. 1.

   (of a bullet) made of soft material that expands on impact

Questions about soft-nosed

What does soft-nosed mean?

soft-nosed means "(of a bullet) made of soft material that expands on impact".

How many syllables are in soft-nosed?

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

soft-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.