| Main Entry: | elliptical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oval-shaped |
Synonyms: |
egg-shaped, ellipsoidal, oblong, ovoid |
| Notes: | elliptic corresponds to the ellipse while elliptical corresponds to the ellipsis |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
Synonyms: |
S-shaped, arced, arched, arciform, arrondi, biflected, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, curvilinear, declinate, elliptical, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, round, rounded, serpentine, sigmoid, sinuous, skewed, snaky, sweeping, swirly, turned, twisted, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
Antonyms: |
straight |
| Main Entry: | irregular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bumpy, uneven |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, amorphous, asymmetrical, bent, broken, cockeyed, craggy, crooked, devious, disproportionate, eccentric, elliptic, elliptical, hilly, jagged, lopsided, lumpy, meandering, not uniform, notched, off-balance, off-center, out of proportion, pitted, protuberant, rough, scarred, serrate, serrated, unaligned, unbalanced, unequal, unsymmetrical, variable, wobbly, zigzagged |
Antonyms: |
even, flat, level, smooth |
| Main Entry: | oblong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elongated and rounded |
Synonyms: |
egg-shaped, ellipsoidal, elliptical, elongate, long, oval, ovaliform, ovaloid, ovate, ovated, ovoid, rectangular |
| Main Entry: | oval |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long and rounded in shape |
Synonyms: |
egg-shaped, ellipsoidal, elliptic, elliptical, oblong, ooid, ovaloid, ovate, oviform, ovoid |
| Main Entry: | round |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ball-shaped; semicircular area |
Synonyms: |
annular, arced, arched, arciform, bent, bowed, bulbous, circular, coiled, curled, curved, curvilinear, cylindrical, discoid, disk-shaped, domical, egg-shaped, elliptical, globose, globular, looped, orbed, orbicular, orbiculate, oval, ringed, rotund, rounded, spherical, spheroid, spiral |
| Main Entry: | terse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, short |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, aphoristic, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, clear-cut, clipped, close, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, crisp, cryptic, curt, cut to the bone, elliptical, epigrammatic, exact, gnomic, in a nutshell, incisive, laconic, lean, neat, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, snappy, succinct, summary, taut, to the point, trenchant |
| Notes: | use terse to characterize brevity or succinctness of expression in a person; concise is used to characterize this in a message |
Antonyms: |
lengthy, long-winded, prolix, wordy |
| Main Entry: | egg-shaped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oval |
Synonyms: |
elliptical, oblong, ovate, ovoid, pear-shaped |
| Main Entry: | globoid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | round |
Synonyms: |
annular, arced, arched, arciform, bent, bowed, bulbous, circular, coiled, curled, curved, curvilinear, cylindrical, discoid, disk-shaped, domical, egg-shaped, elliptical, globose, globular, looped, orbed, orbicular, orbiculate, oval, ringed, rotund |
| Main Entry: | globular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | round |
Synonyms: |
annular, arced, arched, arciform, bent, bowed, bulbous, circular, coiled, curled, curved, curvilinear, cylindrical, discoid, disk-shaped, domical, egg-shaped, elliptical, globoid, globose, looped, orbed, orbicular, orbiculate, oval, ringed, rotund, rounde |