hyphenated

English

hyphenated

simple past tense and past participle of hyphenate
People hyphenated the word "typewriter" more often in the past.

hyphenated (comparative more hyphenated, superlative most hyphenated)

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.

written with a hyphen

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