legged
/ˈlɛɡɪd/
legged adjective: having legs of a certain specified type or number. Also the simple past and past participle of leg.
Adjective
legged (not comparable)
- Having legs of a certain specified type or number.
- Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.
- Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.
- Antonyms:
- legless
- Having legs; provided with legs.
- A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots.
- Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.1948, American Antiquity - Volumes 13-14, page 111
- Antonyms:
- legless
- Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.
- Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 61
Noun
legged (plural leggeds)
- Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs
- Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.
Also used as
legged is also the simple past and past participle of leg.
legged meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati
legged in Hindi
- पैर वाले, पैर वाला
legged in Urdu
- ٹانگوں والا, ٹانگ دار
legged in Gujarati
- પગવાળું, પગવાળા, પગવાળાં
Examples of legged in a sentence
- The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:
- DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities1987, Army Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A 1987 Review, page 10:
- Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application.2011, Paul Muench, Efficiency and Speed in Legged Robotics, →ISBN, page 6:
Antonyms of legged
Forms of legged
| plural | leggeds |
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Origin of legged
From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Words formed from legged
- black-legged kittiwake
- black-legged tick
- bow-legged wi' brass
- eight-legged essay
- feather-legged bug
- four-legged emmet
- four-legged friend
- frog-legged beetle
- grey-legged tinamou
- leggedness
- long-legged buzzard
- long-legged fly
- one legged
- peg legged
- red-legged cormorant
- red-legged golden orb-weaver spider
- red-legged partridge
- red-legged tinamou
- ride the three-legged mare
- rough-legged buzzard
- rough-legged hawk
- slaty-legged crake
- spindle-legged
- splay-legged
- spot-legged poison frog
- stout-legged moa
- thousand-legged worm
- thread-legged bug
- three-legged mare
- three-legged race
- two-legged eel
- two-legged mare
- two-legged tie
- yellow-legged gull
- yellow-legged tinamou
- one-legged
- two-legged
- three-legged
- four-legged
- five-legged
- six-legged
- eight-legged
- multilegged
- no-legged
Phrases with legged
Questions about legged
- What does legged mean?
- Legged means having legs of a certain specified type or number.
- What is legged in Hindi?
- Legged in Hindi is पैर वाले, पैर वाला. See Legged meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use legged in a sentence?
- The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.
- What part of speech is legged?
- Legged can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce legged?
- Legged is pronounced /ˈlɛɡɪd/.
Words near legged in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: legged (page history and authors); legged (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); legged (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); legged (Gujarati, 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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