adjective
- Deviating from a straight line: arced, arched, arciform, bent, bowed, curvilinear, rounded. See straight/bent.
- Having bends, curves, or angles: bending, crooked, curving. See straight/bent.
| Thesaurus: curved |
adjective
| Antonyms: curved |
| Word Tutor: curved |
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).
| WordNet: curved |
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 |
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
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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