hinged
US/hɪnd͡ʒd/
hinged adjective: affixed by a hinge, as a door. Also the simple past and past participle of hinge.
Adjective
hinged (not comparable)
- Affixed by a hinge, as a door.
- There are hinged side buffers, and the centre coupler also is hinged to enable the vehicles to work with ordinary stock.1946 November and December, “New L.M.S.R. Royal Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 371
- Extremely high on drugs.
- Of a stamp, affixed with a stamp hinge.
- Sane; not unhinged.
- […] we were able to used the creamer again in a slightly more hinged scenario, in our drip coffee from the coffee station.2025 July 22, Safiya Nygaard, [ I Tried The Best Convenience Stores in America https://youtu.be/7bjYAnSLBZo?t=1549], c. 25:50
Also used as
hinged is also the simple past and past participle of hinge.
hinged meaning in Kannada
hinged in Kannada
- ಹಿಂಗ್ಡ್
Origin of hinged
The "not unhinged" sense was created as a back-formation from unhinged.
Words formed from hinged
Phrases with hinged
Words that rhyme with hinged
Questions about hinged
- What does hinged mean?
- Hinged means affixed by a hinge, as a door.
- What is hinged in Kannada?
- Hinged in Kannada is ಹಿಂಗ್ಡ್. See Hinged meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is hinged?
- Hinged is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hinged?
- Hinged is pronounced /hɪnd͡ʒd/ (US).
Words near hinged in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hinged (page history and authors); hinged (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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