Word.ws English Dictionary

cross-armed

cross-armed adjective: having the arms crossed.

Adjective

cross-armed (not comparable)

  1. Having the arms crossed.
  2. Brachiate.
    • Inflorescence a large terminal, leafy, cross-armed panicle, composed of small, 5-flowered, terminal umbellets.1838, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 64

Questions about cross-armed

What does cross-armed mean?
Cross-armed means having the arms crossed.
What part of speech is cross-armed?
Cross-armed is an adjective.

Words near cross-armed in the dictionary

  1. cross-
  2. cross-appeal
  3. cross-appealed
  4. cross-appealing
  5. cross-appeals
  6. cross-armed
  7. cross-attention
  8. cross-back
  9. cross-backs
  10. cross-banded
  11. cross-batteries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cross-armed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cross-armed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cross-armed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.