angular

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(ăng'gyə-lər) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Having, forming, or consisting of an angle or angles.
  2. Measured by an angle or by degrees of an arc.
  3. Bony and lean; gaunt: an angular face.
  4. Lacking grace or smoothness; awkward: an angular gait.
  5. Rigid, stiff, and unyielding in character or disposition: "the cold, angular brand of materialism" (David K. Willis).

[Latin angulāris, from angulus, angle.]

angularly an'gu·lar·ly adv.
angularness an'gu·lar·ness n.

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adjective

    Having little flesh or fat on the body: bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, twiggy, weedy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See fat/thin.


adj

Definition: bent
Antonyms: straight

adj

Definition: resembling bones; thin
Antonyms: fat, heavy, thick, weighted

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Having sharp corners or angles.

pronunciation The new shopping center had an angular roof line.

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The angular is a large bone in the lower jaw (mandible) of amphibians and reptiles (birds included), which is connected to all other lower jaw bones: the dentary (which is the entire lower jaw in mammals), the splenial, the suprangular, and the articular. It is homologous to the tympanic bone bone in mammals, due to the incorporation of several jaw bones into the mammalian middle ear early in mammal evolution.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - kantet, vinklet, med skarpe kanter

Nederlands (Dutch)
hoekig, onhandig, benig, hoek-

Français (French)
adj. - anguleux, angulaire, osseux, maigre (un visage), dégingandé, saccadé (un mouvement)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - kantig, winkelig, knochig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - γωνιακός, γωνιώδης, (μτφ.) οστεώδης (κν. κοκαλιάρης)

Italiano (Italian)
angolare

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - angular, anguloso, magro (fig.), rígido (fig.)

Русский (Russian)
угловой, угловатый, неловкий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - anguloso, angular

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - vinkel-, vinkelformad

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
消瘦的, 有角的, 有尖角的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 消瘦的, 有角的, 有尖角的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 모난, 말라빠진, 어색한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 角のとがった, 角度の, やせた, かどのある, 骨張った

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) زاوي : منسوب الى الزاويه, مزوي : ذو زاويه أو زوايا, شديد النحول بارز العظام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮זוויתי, שעצמותיו בולטות, גרמי, נוקשה, קשה‬


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