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curved

 
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adjective

  1. Deviating from a straight line: arced, arched, arciform, bent, bowed, curvilinear, rounded. See straight/bent.
  2. Having bends, curves, or angles: bending, crooked, curving. See straight/bent.

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adj

Definition: bowed, bent
Antonyms: straight


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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: A line bending in one direction.

pronunciation It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft. — Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: not straight; having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend
  Synonym: curving
  Antonym: straight (meaning #8)


Translations: Curved
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - krum

Nederlands (Dutch)
krom, gewelfd

Français (French)
adj. - courbe incurvée, incurvé, arrondi, busqué, crochu (bec)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - gebogen, gekrümmt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - καμπύλος, καμπυλωτός, κυρτός, γαμψός, καμπουρωτός

Italiano (Italian)
curvo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - curvado

Русский (Russian)
изогнутый, кривой

Español (Spanish)
adj. - curvo, encorvado, torcido

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - böjd, krökt, svängd

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
弯曲的, 曲线形的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 彎曲的, 曲線形的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 구부러진, 곡선 모양의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 曲がった, 曲線状の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مقوس, , منحني, منعطف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מעוקם, עקום‬


 
 
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