edentulous
UK/iːˈdɛnt.jʊ.ləs//iˈdɛnt.jʊ.ləs/
edentulous adjective: toothless.
Adjective
edentulous (not comparable)
- Toothless.
- 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 309
- 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 87
- Antonyms:
- dentulous
edentulous meaning in Tamil and Bengali
edentulous in Tamil
- பல்உதிர்ந்தவாய், பல்லிற்ற
edentulous in Bengali
- দাঁতহীন
Antonyms of edentulous
Origin of edentulous
Latin edentulus, which is in turn derived from the prefix e-, meaning "without", and the word dens, meaning "tooth."
Words formed from edentulous
Questions about edentulous
- What does edentulous mean?
- Edentulous means toothless.
- What is edentulous in Tamil?
- Edentulous in Tamil is பல்உதிர்ந்தவாய், பல்லிற்ற. See Edentulous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is edentulous?
- Edentulous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce edentulous?
- Edentulous is pronounced /iːˈdɛnt.jʊ.ləs/ (UK).
Words near edentulous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: edentulous (page history and authors); edentulous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); edentulous (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.
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