shouldered

English

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Adjective

shouldered (not comparable)

1. Furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.

   Antonym: unshouldered

   a shouldered arch

   • 1898, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Zoology (volume 26, page 244)

     Whorls 7 beside those of the embryo-shell; they are slightly shouldered below the suture, between which shoulder and the suture they are slightly hunchy; the last is rather small and slightly flattened.

2. (in combination) Having or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.

   She was bare-shouldered.

Verb

shouldered

1. simple past and past participle of shoulder

Derived terms

• bare-shouldered
• bar-shouldered dove
• big-shouldered
• broad-shouldered
• golden-shouldered parrot
• red-shouldered hawk
• round-shouldered
• shouldered brown
• white-shouldered antshrike
• white-shouldered black tit
• white-shouldered fairywren
• yellow-shouldered ladybird

Translations

having or pertaining to shoulders

Finnish: -harteinen