horned

[ hawrnd ]

adjective

1. having horns (often used in combination):

   a horned beast; blunt-horned.

2. having or wearing a horn-shaped protuberance, ornament, or the like:

   the horned crags.

3. having a crescent-shaped part or form.

horned

/ hɔːnd; ˈhɔːnɪdnɪs /

adjective

1. having a horn, horns, or hornlike parts

Derived Forms

• hornedness, noun

Other Words From

• horn·ed·ness [hawr, -nid-nis], noun
• un·horned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of horned¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; horn, -ed ³

Example Sentences

From tiny northern saw-whets to the majestic great horned, owls are some of the most iconic birds you can hope to see in the wild.

From Popular-Science

Cruella, with its shoe-horned attempts at referencing 101 Dalmatians, proves just how thrilling but also limiting the exercise can be.

From The Daily Beast

Their likenesses were substituted in for the faces of the rioters, including one who wore a horned hat, another who stole House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern, and one more wearing a shirt with the symbol for the extremist ideology QAnon.

From Washington Post

Some, like the horned “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley, have cast themselves as both victims and perpetrators.

From Washington Post

In still others, males and females have different patterns for sociality, as in big-horned sheep, which have sex-segregated herds.

From Nautilus

And so, the horned god became Satan—and others in his demonic retinue.

From The Daily Beast

The male Wiccan god is given horns, representing the horned animals that ancient humans hunted.

From The Daily Beast

Her bangs tickle the tops of her thin horned-rimmed prescription glasses, her earlobes sparkle with a small pair of sparkly studs.

From The Daily Beast

Fifteen of these horned monsters maintain an incessant mooing and bellowing.

From Project Gutenberg

We heard boars snorting, and running away, and strange-looking horned creatures leaping and bounding off in all directions.

From Project Gutenberg

They are descendants of the old long-horned stock, and have a mighty notion of the importance of church-going.

From Project Gutenberg

Looking in the direction she pointed, he saw about fifty yards away an enormous horned snake wound round a branch of sassafras.

From Project Gutenberg

The baron made a sign, and thirty peasants ran to the cottage of Finette, who very obligingly lent them her golden-horned cow.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• acute
• pointed
• razor-sharp
• sharpened
• stinging