shouldered

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adjective

Furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.

“a shouldered arch”

Opposite
unshouldered
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Meanings

adjectiveshouldered (not comparable)
  1. not comparableFurnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.

    a shouldered arch

    1 more example

    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.

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

    Antonyms: unshouldered

  2. in compoundsnot comparableHaving or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.

    She was bare-shouldered.

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of shoulder

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveFurnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.

Opposite
unshouldered

Translations

Finnish -harteinen
  • -harteinenhaving or pertaining to shoulders
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