waist-high

1. 1.

   up to the waist

   “the water rose waist-high”

   Synonymswaist-deep

Questions about waist-high

What does waist-high mean?

waist-high means "up to the waist".

How many syllables are in waist-high?

waist-high has 2 syllables and divides as wais-t-high 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-high?

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

waist-high 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.