Meanings
- not comparablesciencesToothless.
A Malay elder crawled on to the veranda, greeted Crabbe with an edentulous "Tabek!" and then crouched in a dark corner, chewing a quid of sireh with hard gums.
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 3091 more example
Partial edentulism has traditionally been treated with conventional fixed prosthetics when adequate natural tooth abutments are available to support the edentulous span.
2000, Patrick J. Stevens et al., chapter 7, in Implant Prosthodontics: Clinical and Laboratory Procedures, →ISBN, page 87Antonyms: dentulous
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveToothless.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving lost teeth
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Latin edentulus, which is in turn derived from the prefix e-, meaning "without", and the word dens, meaning "tooth."
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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