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one-legged

/ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/

one-legged adjective: having only one leg.

Adjective

one-legged (not comparable)

  1. Having only one leg.
  2. Of an audio signal: having a thin sound as a result of connection through only one wire of a circuit pair.
    • […] obviously wrong termination is likely to lead to a thin 'one-legged' sound with significant loss of level, and/or distortion.2000, Philip Richard Newell, Project Studios: A More Professional Approach, page 40
    • […] you have to bear in mind that your sound files in these circumstances will have a one legged stereo recording.2013, Tim Crook, The Sound Handbook, page 100

Noun

one-legged (plural one-leggeds)

  1. A plant, especially a tree.
    • In other words, people engage in communicative relationships not only with other people, but also with four-leggeds, one-leggeds, and no-leggeds, with trees, plants, and rocks, with the sun, moon, and stars, ...2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBN
    • We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113

one-legged meaning in Telugu and Gujarati

one-legged in Telugu

having only one leg
ఒంటికాలి oṇṭikāli

one-legged in Gujarati

one-legged
એકપગું ekapgũ

Synonyms of one-legged

Forms of one-legged

pluralone-leggeds

Origin of one-legged

From one + legged.

Questions about one-legged

What does one-legged mean?
One-legged means having only one leg.
What is one-legged in Telugu?
One-legged in Telugu is ఒంటికాలి (oṇṭikāli). See One-legged meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is one-legged?
One-legged can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce one-legged?
One-legged is pronounced /ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/.

Words near one-legged in the dictionary

  1. one-hundred-year storm
  2. one-hundred-year storms
  3. one-hundredth
  4. one-hundredths
  5. one-itis
  6. one-legged
  7. one-leggeds
  8. one-line skies
  9. one-line sky
  10. one-line whip
  11. one-line whips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one-legged (page history and authors); એકપગું (Gujarati) (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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