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Another word for angular

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angular

modif.

Coming to an angle
sharp-cornered, intersecting, crossing, oblique, divaricate, with corners, V-shaped, Y-shaped, crotched, forked, bent, akimbo, bifurcate(d), crooked, pointed, triangular, rectangular, scraggy, jagged, staggered, zigzag.
Antonyms round*, parallel, side-by-side.
Tall and bony
lank, lean, gaunt, rawboned, bony, awkward, ungainly, lanky, stiff, spindly, spare, gangling, gawky, scrawny, clumsy.
Antonyms round*, plump, fleshy.

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Another word for angular

adjective

Having little flesh or fat on the body:

bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean², meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, twiggy, weedy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See fat

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These letters are of simple, square, angular design.
Dustin was lean and handsome with clear, cool blue eyes and sharp, angular features.
Given certain linear and angular measurements, the area must be so and so.
His black curly hair was cut short, every hair in place, and his angular jaws were freshly shaven.
Another curious theorem proposed by Bouilland in 1625 as a substitute for Kepler's second law is that the angular motion of the body as measured around the empty focus F' is (approximately) uniform.

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