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Dictionary: an·gu·lar   (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.

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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.

Wikipedia: Angular
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The angular is a large bone in the lower jaw of amphibians, birds and reptiles, 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.


Translations: Angular
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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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