Angular
['æŋgjʊlə] or ['æŋɡjəlɚ]
Definition
(adj.) having angles or an angular shape .
(adj.) measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle; 'angular momentum' .
Inputed by Enoch--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
(a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.
(a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
(n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Pointed, with angles, with corners.
Typed by Arthur
Examples
- I had heard this woman termed plain, and I expected bony harshness and grimness--something large, angular, sallow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mrs Wilfer was, of course, a tall woman and an angular. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That angular shadow up yonder was the bait, and we were the hunters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On one occasion Malm saw a young fish raise and depress the lower eye through an angular distance of about seventy degrees. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Miss Ophelia, as you now behold her, stands before you, in a very shining brown linen travelling-dress, tall, square-formed, and angular. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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