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shouldered

shouldered adjective: furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion. Also the simple past and past participle of shoulder.

Adjective

shouldered (not comparable)

  1. Furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.
    • a shouldered arch
    • Whorls 7 beside those of the embryo-shell; they are slightly shouldered below the suture, between which shoulder and the suture they are slightly hunchy; the last is rather small and slightly flattened.1898, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Zoology (volume 26, page 244)
    Antonyms:
    unshouldered
  2. (in-compounds) Having or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.
    • She was bare-shouldered.

Also used as

shouldered is also the simple past and past participle of shoulder.

Antonyms of shouldered

Words formed from shouldered

Phrases with shouldered

Questions about shouldered

What does shouldered mean?
Shouldered means furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.
What part of speech is shouldered?
Shouldered is an adjective.

Words near shouldered in the dictionary

  1. shoulderbelts
  2. shoulderblade
  3. shoulderblades
  4. shoulderboard
  5. shoulderboards
  6. shouldered
  7. shouldered brown
  8. shouldered browns
  9. shoulderer
  10. shoulderers
  11. shoulderette

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