hyphenated

adjective

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.).

- 'My hyphenated friend is half American and half Chinese.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of hyphenate

- Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.