"hunchbacked" meaning in English

See hunchbacked in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more hunchbacked [comparative], most hunchbacked [superlative]
Etymology: From hunch + backed. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hunch|backed}} hunch + backed Head templates: {{en-adj}} hunchbacked (comparative more hunchbacked, superlative most hunchbacked)
  1. Having an abnormally curved or hunched back Synonyms: humpbacked, kyphotic Derived forms: hunchback
    Sense id: en-hunchbacked-en-adj-50VlEswr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for hunchbacked meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hunch",
        "3": "backed"
      },
      "expansion": "hunch + backed",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hunch + backed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hunchbacked",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hunchbacked",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hunchbacked (comparative more hunchbacked, superlative most hunchbacked)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "hunchback"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having an abnormally curved or hunched back"
      ],
      "id": "en-hunchbacked-en-adj-50VlEswr",
      "links": [
        [
          "curved",
          "curved"
        ],
        [
          "hunched",
          "hunched"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "humpbacked"
        },
        {
          "word": "kyphotic"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hunchbacked"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "hunchback"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hunch",
        "3": "backed"
      },
      "expansion": "hunch + backed",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hunch + backed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hunchbacked",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hunchbacked",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hunchbacked (comparative more hunchbacked, superlative most hunchbacked)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having an abnormally curved or hunched back"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "curved",
          "curved"
        ],
        [
          "hunched",
          "hunched"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "humpbacked"
    },
    {
      "word": "kyphotic"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hunchbacked"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.