ungulate

1. 1.

   having or resembling hoofs

   “horses and other hoofed animals”

   Synonymsungulatedhoofedhooved

   Antonymsunguiculate

   Similarsolid-hoofed

Other forms of ungulate

plural

ungulates·

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 ungulate

What does ungulate mean?

ungulate means "any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ungulate?

ungulate has 3 syllables: un-gu-late. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for ungulate?

Close synonyms include hoofed mammal, ungulated, hoofed, hooved. 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.

What is the opposite of ungulate?

The recorded antonyms are unguiculate.

Is ungulate a common word?

ungulate 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.