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tapering
| Main Entry: |
tapering
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrowing |
| Synonyms: | acuminate, acuminous, conical, fusiform, lanceolar, pyramidal, taper, wedged |
| Antonyms: | widening |
| Main Entry: | taper/taper off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decrease to a point |
| Synonyms: | abate, bate, close, come to a point, die away, die out, diminish, drain, dwindle, fade, lessen, narrow, recede, reduce, rescind, subside, thin, thin out, wane, weaken, wind down |
| Antonyms: | go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | taper |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decrease |
| Synonyms: | abate, bate, close, die away, die out, diminish, drain, dwindle, fade, lessen, narrow, recede, reduce, rescind, subside, taper off, thin, thin out, wane, weaken, wind down |
| Antonyms: | go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | conical/conic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaped cylindrically and with a point |
| Synonyms: | cone-shaped, coned, conoid, conoidal, funnel-shaped, pointed, pyramidal, sharp, strobilate, strobiloid, tapered, tapering |
| Main Entry: | narrow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confined, restricted |
| Synonyms: | attenuated, circumscribed, close, compressed, confining, constricted, contracted, cramped, definite, determinate, exclusive, exiguous, fine, fixed, incapacious, limited, linear, meager, near, paltry, pent, pinched, precarious, precise, scant, scanty, select, set, shrunken, slender, slim, small, spare, strait, taper, tapered, tapering, thin, threadlike, tight |
| Antonyms: | broad, generous, liberal, unconfined, unrestricted, wide |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knifelike, cutting |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dull |
| Main Entry: | conical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cylindrical |
| Synonyms: | cone-shaped, coned, conic, conoid, conoidal, funnel-shaped, pointed, pyramidal, sharp, strobilate, strobiloid, tapered, tapering |
| Main Entry: | acuminate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pointed |
| Synonyms: | acicular, aciculated, acute, cuspated, cuspidated, edged, fine, mucronate, pointy, sharp, tapering |
| Main Entry: | knifelike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, gnawing, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, shooting, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stabbing, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
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