hyphenated

hyphenated

1. 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)

1. Written with a hyphen.

   Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.

2. Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).
   • 2005 October 28, Edwin A. Sumcad, “Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right”, in American Chronicle‎^[]:

     [The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity.