In typography, the hyphen was widely used for words too long for a single line of type, to con-
tinue them on the next line with a break between syllables. However, right justification is now accomplished with proportional text.
- In grammar, words used together to have a specialized meaning would be joined by hyphens, such as the term "ten-year-old" so that the reader would be forewarned reading the text that the ten was not being followed by a plural noun. Other nouns also signal a connection, such as mother-in-law.
- Similarly, compound modifiers (paired nouns and adjectives) are joined to avoid confusion, as in the compound adjectives work-related, second-rate, custom-built, and split-level. Some prefixes primarily used hyphens, as in pre-galvanized and re-piercing. However compound nouns are increasingly being run together as in cooperate, reelect and preeminent.
- The text forms of paired numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine are hyphenated as adjectives.
The word desperate hyphenated
Light-Headed is a hyphenated word.
No, "hardworking" is not hyphenated.
Both the full word and the hyphenated form are accepted.
It is one word according to Webster dictionary. it is one word but it can be hyphenated it wanted to (Table-Cloth)
"Field" is not hyphenated.
No, "homework" shouldn't be hyphenated.
Yes it should be hyphenated.
No it shouldn't be hyphenated.
There shouldn't be any spaces in a hyphenated word.
No it's not hyphenated.
Yes it should be hyphenated.