thenar

1. 1.

   of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb

   Synonymsthenal

Other forms of thenar

plural

thenars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thenar

What does thenar mean?

thenar means "the fleshy area of the palm at the base of the thumb". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thenar?

thenar has 2 syllables: the-nar. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for thenar?

Close synonyms include palm, thenal. 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 thenar a common word?

thenar 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.