curvilineal
61Curvature — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Curvature >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 curvature curvature curvity curvation Sgm: N 1 incurvature incurvature incurvity| Sgm: N 1 incurvation incurvation Sgm: N 1 bend bend Sgm: N 1 flexure …
62curvilinear — 1710, from curvi , comb. form of L. curvus (see CURVE (Cf. curve)) + linearis, from linea line (see LINE (Cf. line) (n.)). Earlier was curvilineal (1650s) …
63curvilinear — Formed or characterized by curving lines. Elements of late Gothic and Art Nouveau ornament are examples of curvilinear treatment of form. Also curvilineal …
64sinuous — a. Winding, crooked, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, serpentine, flexuous, bending in and out …
65tortuous — a. 1. Crooked, sinuous, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, winding, serpentine, bending in and out, wreathed, twisted, mazy, flexuous. 2. Perverse, circuitous, roundabout, indirect, deceitful, wrong, erroneous, mischievous,… …
66round — adj 1. circular, cycloid, disklike, discoid; ring shaped, ringlike, ringed, hoop, hooplike, hooped, rotiform, annular; cylindrical, tubular; spherical, spheroidal, spheroid, spheric, spheral, spheroidic, ball shaped, globelike, globe shaped,… …
67soft — adj 1. plushlike, plushed, squashy, squishy, mushy, spongy; pulpy, pulpal, pulpous, pulplike, pul paceous, overripe, overmature; pappy, paplike, mashed, softened; thin, watery, runny, liquid; loamy, friable, crumbly; marshy, paludal, boggy,… …
68curvilinear — /kɜvəˈlɪniə / (say kervuh lineeuh) adjective 1. consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure. 2. forming, or moving in a curved line. 3. formed, or characterised by, curved lines. Also, curvilineal …
69curvilinear — [kʉr΄və lin′ē ər] adj. consisting of or enclosed by a curved line or lines: also curvilineal curvilinearly adv …
70curved — adjective having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend (Freq. 5) the curved tusks of a walrus his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard • Syn: ↑curving • Ant: ↑straight • Simila …
