Used in a Sentence

hyphenated

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hyphenated.

Editorial note

Browser support is not good and so words usually are not hyphenated which leads to stretching whitespace.

Examples17
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Written with a hyphen.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hyphenated gathered in one view.

adjective

Written with a hyphen.

adjective

Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hyphenated.

adjective

Written with a hyphen.

adjective

Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).

Example sentences

1

Browser support is not good and so words usually are not hyphenated which leads to stretching whitespace.

2

[0] ‘backen’ (to bake) becomes bak-ken when hyphenated at the end of a line, ‘airlock’ can’t be hyphenated at all between c and k.

3

That's what the author thinks the problem is, but we don't know because the book isn't available and there isn't a list of the hyphenated words.

4

Yes, memorizing camelized styles would be more efficient, but then the library doesn't deal with hyphenated ones in the first place.

5

Instead, it deals with (very rarely encountered) hyphenated _attributes_ (you should have guessed, or God forbid read the code you were criticizing).

6

Frederick James Jonathan Bull-White Is three given names followed by a hyphenated family name.

7

But now it seems to behave almost the same as the unquoted (hyphenated word).

8

This might seem strange, but if there's one thing from Common Lisp that should receive wider adoption in other languages, it's hyphenated names.

9

I guess I haven't seen hyphenated text in a long time, as everything in web is unhyphenated.

10

Using a hyphenated-word used to require that the two words occur in order, although it would also match the two words joined together.

11

Otherwise, just try to avoid hyphenated words, a simpler word will often do.

12

I recall reading that hyphenated domains were penalised on Google but I have no idea if this is still true.

Quote examples

1

Also worth noting that the "automation" was a spell checker, which presumably flagged examples that aren't considered properly hyphenated in the English language.

2

The word "totalitarian" is hyphenated, to make the line justified.

3

Previously it was equivalent to ("hyphenated word" OR +hyphenatedword).

4

But on the web, you can't do your fine-tuning, so it's auto or nothing -- and "nothing"/unjustified text typically has less annoying failure modes than auto-hyphenated/justified text does.

Proper noun examples

1

Hyphenated exactly as shown regardless of magnification.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hyphenated in a sentence?

Browser support is not good and so words usually are not hyphenated which leads to stretching whitespace.

What does hyphenated mean?

Written with a hyphen.

What part of speech is hyphenated?

hyphenated is commonly used as adjective.