waist-deep

1. 1.

   up to the waist

   “the water rose waist-high”

   Synonymswaist-high

Questions about waist-deep

What does waist-deep mean?

waist-deep means "up to the waist".

How many syllables are in waist-deep?

waist-deep has 2 syllables and divides as waist--deep under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for waist-deep?

Close synonyms include waist-high. 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 waist-deep a common word?

waist-deep 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.