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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vaulted |
| Synonyms: | bowed, curved, domed, embowed, rounded |
| Main Entry: | bent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved |
| Synonyms: | angled, arced, arched, arciform, bowed, contorted, crooked, curvilinear, doubled over, drooping, droopy, hooked, humped, hunched, inclined, limp, looped, round, rounded, sinuous, slouchy, slumped, stooped, twined, twisted, warped, wilted |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | convex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rounded, curving outward |
| Synonyms: | arched, bent, biconvex, bulged, bulging, bulgy, gibbous, outcurved, protuberant, raised |
| 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: | concave, depressed, sinking |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | rolled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made into a roll |
| Synonyms: | arched, bent, bowed, coiled, convoluted, curled, curved, folded, furled, involute, spiraled, twisted, voluted, wound |
| Antonyms: | spread, straight, unrolled |
| Main Entry: | bowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent |
| Synonyms: | arched, bulging, curved, hunched, rounded |
| Main Entry: | vaulted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domed |
| Synonyms: | arched, concave |
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