adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of nose form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Having some specific type of nose. in-compounds, not-comparable

   "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer"

Adjective

1. 1
   having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

hook nosedsharp nosedshort nosedtube nosed

Antonyms

All antonyms

noseless

Example

More examples

"She nosed about in his desk for the letter."

Related phrases

Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrossBurmese snub-nosed monkeyKitti's hog-nosed batMyanmar snub-nosed monkeyRudolph the Red-nosed ReindeerSemon's leaf-nosed batWuyi sharp-nosed frogbloody-nosed beetleblue-nosedblunt-nosed viperbottle-nosedbottle-nosed dolphin

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.