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Recorded vs Hyphenated - What's the difference?

recorded | hyphenated |

As verbs the difference between recorded and hyphenated

is that recorded is past tense of record while hyphenated is past tense of hyphenate.

As adjectives the difference between recorded and hyphenated

is that recorded is that has been recorded while hyphenated is written with a hyphen.

recorded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (record)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • that has been recorded
    • Recorded music comes in many forms.

    hyphenated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hyphenate)
    • Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Written with a hyphen.
    • Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.
  • Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).
    • "[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.