underbelly

1. 1.

   lower side

   “the underbellies of clouds”

   Broaderbottom
2. 2.

   the soft belly or underside of an animal's body

   Synonymsunderbody

   Broaderabdomen
3. 3.

   the quality of being weak or unprotected

   “the soft underbelly of the Axis”

   Broaderweak part

Other forms of underbelly

plural

underbellies·

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 underbelly

What does underbelly mean?

underbelly means "lower side". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underbelly?

underbelly has 4 syllables: un-der-bel-ly. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌbɛli/.

What is another word for underbelly?

Close synonyms include underbody. 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 underbelly a common word?

underbelly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with underbelly?

1 word rhymes with underbelly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.