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sway-backed

sway-backed is the alternative spelling of swaybacked.

Meaning of swaybacked

Adjective

swaybacked (comparative more swaybacked, superlative most swaybacked)

  1. Having a sagged back.
    • swaybacked horse
  2. Having sagged or hollow surface.
    • swaybacked roof
  3. (figuratively) Old.
    • swaybacked book

Forms of sway-backed

comparativemore sway-backed
superlativemost sway-backed

Questions about sway-backed

What is sway-backed the alternative spelling of?
Sway-backed is the alternative spelling of swaybacked.

Words near sway-backed in the dictionary

  1. swavoury
  2. sway
  3. sway bar
  4. sway bars
  5. sway'd
  6. sway-backed
  7. sway-bracing
  8. sway-bracings
  9. swayable
  10. Swayambhuva Manu
  11. swayamsevak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sway-backed (page history and authors); swaybacked (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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