jowled

7.5

With soft, sagging cheeks and loose skin around the jaw

adjective
/ˈdʒaʊld/

: con papada

She noticed that her grandmother's jowled cheeks had become more pronounced over the years.

Examples

The heavy-jowled man smiled warmly as he greeted everyone at the party.
With his jowled face and friendly demeanor, he looked like someone you could trust.
Her jowled arms flap as she moves toward Mason.

Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

jowly

vsjowled

1 7.5

A person with loose, sagging flesh under the chin and lower face

includes sagging fleshy cheeks as well as the jaw area

loose-jowled

vsjowled

8.6

Having loose skin under the chin that hangs down

is used for sagging cheeks and jaw as well as the chin

double-chinned

vsjowled

5.3

Having extra soft skin under the chin that hangs down slightly

is broader and includes sagging cheeks and jaw area not just under the chin

Antonyms

smooth

256 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

taut

30 4.8

Stretched tight and showing physical or emotional tension

Compounds

loose-jowled

8.6

Having loose skin under the chin that hangs down

How Saggy

double-chinned

5.3

jowled

7.5

Surface Forms

jowled positive

Morphology

jowled = jowl (transparent) = jowl + ed

Regular adjectival formation from the noun 'jowl' with '-ed' meaning 'having jowls', so the meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

The word jowled comes from an old word for the cheek, like French joue which means 'cheek', and a helpful way to remember it is to think of the English word 'jaw' for the lower face. So, someone who is jowled has heavy, sagging flesh around the jaw and cheeks, which is why the word means having prominent, drooping cheeks.