| Main Entry: | concave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved, depressed |
Synonyms: |
biconcave, cupped, dented, dimpled, dipped, excavated, hollow, hollowed, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, indented, round, rounded, sagging, scooped, sinking, sunken |
| Notes: | convex (from Latin convexus 'arched, vaulted') refers to a surface that curves outward, concave (from Latin concavus 'hollow') to a surface that curves inward |
Antonyms: |
convex, distended |
| Main Entry: | cavernous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hollow and large |
Synonyms: |
alveolate, broad, chambered, chasmal, commodious, concave, curved inward, deep, deep-set, echoing, gaping, huge, resonant, reverberant, roomy, sepulchral, socketed, spacious, sunken, vast, wide, yawning |
Antonyms: |
filled |
| Main Entry: | crescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickle-shaped |
Synonyms: |
bow-shaped, bowed, concave, convex, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, curved, falcate, semicircular |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bending in a shape or course |
Synonyms: |
arc, arch, bend, bow, buckle, bulge, coil, concave, convex, crook, crumple, curl, deviate, divert, gyrate, hook, incurve, inflect, loop, round, skew, snake, spiral, stoop, swerve, turn, twist, veer, wind, wreathe |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | dig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delve into; hollow out |
Synonyms: |
bore, break up, bulldoze, burrow, cat, channel, clean, concave, deepen, depress, dig down, discover, dredge, drill, drive, enter, excavate, exhume, fork out, go into, gouge, grub, harvest, hoe, investigate, mine, penetrate, pierce, pit, probe, produce, quarry, root, root out, rout, sap, scoop, scoop out, search, shovel, sift, spade, till, tunnel, turn over, uncover, undermine, unearth |
Antonyms: |
fill |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty, hollowed out |
Synonyms: |
alveolate, arched, carved out, cavernous, cleft, concave, cup-shaped, cupped, curved, deep-set, depressed, dimpled, excavated, incurved, indented, infundibular, not solid, notched, pitted, striated, sunken, troughlike, unfilled, vacant, vaulted, void |
Antonyms: |
convex, full, raised, solid |
| Main Entry: | sunken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, hollowed; submerged |
Synonyms: |
buried, caved-in, concave, fallen-in, immersed, indented, recessed |
| Main Entry: | vaulted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domed |
Synonyms: |
arched, concave |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
aquiline, barrel, bombé, bow, bowed, circular, concamerated, concavo, convexo, cordiform, crescentic, crump, curvate, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvulate, cusped, devex, devious, downcurved, excurved, falcate, ficiform, fig, hooked, incurved, involute, lenticular, lentiform, looped, lunette, luniform, lunular, meniscal, meniscoid, oblique, obpyriform, pear, recurved, recurvous, reniform, retroflex, saber, semilunar, sigmoidal, sweeping, upcurved, vaulted
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