underhung

1. 1.

   supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above

   “underhung sliding doors”

   Similarsupported
2. 2.

   having a lower part projecting beyond the upper

   “an underhung jaw”

   “undershot bulldog”

   Synonymsundershotunderslung

   Similarprotrusive

Questions about underhung

What does underhung mean?

underhung means "supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underhung?

underhung has 3 syllables: un-der-hung. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for underhung?

Close synonyms include undershot, underslung. 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 underhung a common word?

underhung 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.