Lantern-jawed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lantern-jawed is an adjective meaning Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
Meaning
Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
Example Sentences
He was very thin and lantern-jawed. He dared not meet his own eyes in the mirror; he never looked at himself.
A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab.
Synonyms for lantern-jawed
Depending on context, synonyms include prognathous, prognathic, hypognathous.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prognathous, prognathic, hypognathous, blue-jawed, jut-jawed, square-jawed.
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