angulate :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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Verbs (1)

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v. make or become angular

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Adjectives (3)

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adj. having sharp angles

angular, angulate

adj. having angles or an angular shape

Fuzzynyms (23)

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adj. having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point"

acuate, acute, sharp, needlelike

adj. ending in a sharp point

adj. as sharp as a razor

adj. lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed

adj. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

Synonyms (31)

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adj. having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed

adj. having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched

ciliate, ciliated

adj. having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections

crenate, crenated, scalloped

adj. having a margin with rounded scallops

crenulate, crenulated

adj. having a margin with small rounded teeth; "a crenulate leaf"

adj. wavy or notched and curled very irregularly

adj. having toothlike projections in the margin

adj. having a very finely toothed margin

adj. having a notched tip

erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed

adj. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

adj. having a fringe of slender processes

lacerate, lacerated

adj. irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves"

adj. irregularly and finely slashed

adj. like a comb

adj. having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves

serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched

adj. notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

adj. minutely serrated

adj. having spines

Antonyms (5)

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adj. curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"

adj. spherical in shape

fleshy, heavy, overweight

adj. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

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