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kneed

/niːd/

kneed adjective: having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees. Also the simple past and past participle of knee.

Adjective

kneed (not comparable)

  1. Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.
    • a kneed biped; a knobbly-kneed boy
  2. Having angular joints like the knee.

Also used as

kneed is also the simple past and past participle of knee.

Origin of kneed

From knee + -ed.

Words formed from kneed

Words that rhyme with kneed

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Questions about kneed

What does kneed mean?
Kneed means having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.
What part of speech is kneed?
Kneed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce kneed?
Kneed is pronounced /niːd/.

Words near kneed in the dictionary

  1. kneecapping
  2. kneecappings
  3. kneecaps
  4. Kneece
  5. Kneeces
  6. kneed
  7. kneedeep
  8. kneedness
  9. kneedrop
  10. kneedrops
  11. kneeful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kneed (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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