Standard Lemma guide

legged

adj · noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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/ˈlɛɡɪd/
/ˈlɛɡd/
Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
/ˈlɛɡəd/ weak vowel merger
rhymes with -ɛɡɪd
rhymes with -ɛɡd
rhymes with -ɛɡəd
Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
CMU ARPABET: L EH1 G AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2: L EH1 G D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

adj

Meaning 1

Having legs of a certain specified type or number.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-compounds, not-comparable

Examples

Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.
Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: legless

adj

Meaning 2

Having legs; provided with legs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: legless

adj

Meaning 3

Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

noun

Meaning 4

Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

verb

Meaning 5

simple past and past participle of leg

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

adjective

Meaning 6

having legs of a specified kind or number

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

four-legged animals
a peg-legged man

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: legless

History

Etymology

From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Across languages

Translations

5 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Finnish: jalallinen — having legs, or certain type or number of legs
Finnish: -jalkainen — having legs, or certain type or number of legs
Finnish: -säärinen — having legs, or certain type or number of legs
Finnish: -lahkeinen — having legs, or certain type or number of legs
Swedish: -bent — having legs, or certain type or number of legs

Word forms

Inflections and variants

leggeds — plural

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: black-legged kittiwake, black-legged tick, bow-legged wi' brass, eight-legged essay, feather-legged bug, four-legged emmet, four-legged friend, frog-legged beetle, grey-legged tinamou, leggedness, long-legged buzzard, long-legged fly, one legged, peg legged, red-legged cormorant, red-legged golden orb-weaver spider, red-legged partridge, red-legged tinamou, ride the three-legged mare, rough-legged buzzard, rough-legged hawk, slaty-legged crake, spindle-legged, splay-legged, spot-legged poison frog, stout-legged moa, thousand-legged worm, thread-legged bug, three-legged mare, three-legged race, two-legged eel, two-legged mare, two-legged tie, yellow-legged gull, yellow-legged tinamou, one-legged, two-legged, three-legged, four-legged, five-legged, six-legged, eight-legged, multilegged, no-legged

Related: none provided

Semantic map

Other relationships

Hyponyms: badger-legged, baker-legged, bandy-legged, barelegged, bow-legged, cross-legged, duck-legged, light-legged, long-legged, peg-legged, puff-legged, rough-legged, short-legged, spraddle-legged, spraddlelegged, wooden-legged

Coordinate Terms: armed, brained, winged

Sources

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