shouldered — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Antonyms

   unshouldered

   Examples

   a shouldered arch

   More examples (1)

   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.

2. Having or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.

   Usage

   • In compounds
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   She was bare-shouldered.

Adjective

1. having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form

   Examples

   stoop-shouldered

   broad-shouldered