curved
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɜːvd/
- (US) IPA(key): /kɝːvd/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vd
Adjective
curved (comparative more curved, superlative most curved)
- Having a curve or curves.
- 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 37:
- These VEAs (of which some 550 were built in total) would themselves have been converted from 1962 vanwides, refurbished and fitted with airbrakes specifically with Ministry of Defence munitions traffic in mind, as many military establishments and depots would have had track too sharply curved for newer airbraked wagons.
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Synonyms
- (having a curve):
- (for two-dimensional shapes): bent, hooked
- (for three-dimensional shapes): rounded
- (having curves): curvy, sinuous, tortuous, wavy
Antonyms
- straight
Derived terms
- curved edge
- curved woodrush
Translations
having a curve or curves
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Verb
curved
- simple past tense and past participle of curve
References
- “curved”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.