shortshouldered
The word 'short-shouldered' is divided into three syllables: short-shoul-dered. It's a compound adjective with primary stress on 'shoul'. The morphemic breakdown reveals 'short' as the root and 'shouldered' as a suffix indicating a shoulder-related characteristic.
Definitions
- 1
Having shoulders that are sloping or broad; having a shape resembling shoulders.
“The wrestler had a short-shouldered build.”
“The short-shouldered silhouette of the mountains was striking.”
Stress pattern
Primary stress falls on the second syllable ('shoul') of 'shouldered'.
Syllables
short — Open syllable, stressed.. shoul — Open syllable, stressed.. dered — Closed syllable, unstressed.
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- The hyphen in 'short-shouldered' doesn't affect phonetic syllabification but must be maintained orthographically.
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