Hyphenated vs Hyphenate - What's the difference?
hyphenated | hyphenate |
(hyphenate)
Written with a hyphen.
Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).
To break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.
To join words or syllables with a hyphen.
A person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
As verbs the difference between hyphenated and hyphenate
is that hyphenated is past tense of hyphenate while hyphenate is to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.As an adjective hyphenated
is written with a hyphen.As a noun hyphenate is
a person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".hyphenated
English
Verb
(head)- Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.
- "[The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity. "
Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right
, October 28, 2005.
