swayback

Questions about swayback

What does swayback mean?

swayback means "having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)".

How many syllables are in swayback?

swayback has 2 syllables: sway-back. The stress falls on "sway".

What is another word for swayback?

Close synonyms include dipped, lordotic, swaybacked. 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 swayback a common word?

swayback 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.