Hunchbacked (Adjective)
Meaning
Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The old man's hunchbacked posture made him appear much shorter than his actual height.
- After years of working in a cramped factory, she developed a hunchbacked stoop that gave her chronic back pain.
- The artist's rendering of Quasimodo depicted the famous literary character as severely hunchbacked, with a grotesquely curved spine.
- Due to her congenital condition, the young girl was born with a hunchbacked deformity that required ongoing medical treatment.
- As the years took their toll, the once-tall man became increasingly hunchbacked, his shoulders rounded and his head thrust forward.