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| Main Entry: |
circular
 [sur-kyuh-ler] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | going around |
| Synonyms: | annular, circinate, circling, disklike, indirect, oblique, orbicular, ring-shaped, round, rounded, spheroid |
| Main Entry: | advertisement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public notice of sale |
| Synonyms: | ad, announcement, bill, blurb, broadcast, circular, classified ad, commercial, communication, declaration, display, endorsement, exhibit, exhibition, flyer, literature, notice, notification, placard, plug, poster, proclamation, promotion, promulgation, propaganda, publication, publicity, squib, throwaway, want ad |
| Main Entry: | booklet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pamphlet |
| Synonyms: | brochure, circular, flyer, handbill, handout, leaflet, mailer, notice, tract |
Example Sentences
- Almost all of our moon's craters are nearly circular too.
- But mantis shrimp are the first animals known to see both linear polarization and a much rarer type called circular polarization.
- The wreaths symbolize the couple's unity, both in their circular shape and in the ribbon that connects them.
| Main Entry: | brochure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | short, printed document |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, booklet, circular, flyer, folder, handbill, handout, leaflet, pamphlet |
| Main Entry: | circuitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | going around, indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambagious, back road, by way of, circular, collateral, complicated, devious, labyrinthine, long way, long way around, meandering, oblique, rambling, roundabout, tortuous, winding around |
| Antonyms: | direct, in line, straight |
| 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: | cyclical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening at regular intervals |
| Synonyms: | circular, patterned, periodic, recurrent, recurring, regular, repeated, repetitive, seasonal |
| Main Entry: | enclosure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something included with a letter |
| Synonyms: | check, circular, copy, document, form, information, money, printed matter, questionnaire |
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, circumlocutory, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long way home, long-drawn-out, long-winded, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, periphrastic, rambling, secondary, serpentine, sidelong, sinister, sinuous, snaking, sneaking, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, twisting, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, straightforward |
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