Another word for angular
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Adjective
Having little flesh or fat on the body
- Full of or consisting of weeds:
- Being, characteristic of, or resembling a weed:
- Of a scrawny build; spindly or gawky.
- Resembling a twig or twigs, as in slenderness or fragility.
- Abounding in twigs:
- Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension:
- Not great in diameter or cross section; fine:
- Having little bodily flesh or fat; lean or slender.
- To refrain from harming, injuring, destroying, or killing:
- To leave undamaged or unharmed:
- To refrain from denouncing or distressing; treat leniently or with consideration:
- Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
- Small in quantity or amount; meager:
- To become or make slim.
- Having little width in proportion to height or length; long and thin:
- Thin and delicate in build; gracefully slim:
- Small in amount or extent; meager:
- Having very little bodily flesh or fat, often unattractively so; very thin.
- Having little width; narrow:
- Of, relating to, or resembling skin.
- Very thin and bony:
- Stunted or straggly:
- Having a lean, gaunt frame with prominent bones.
- Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
- Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble:
- Having little flesh; lean.
- To bend or slant away from the vertical.
- To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported:
- To rely for assistance or support:
- Tall, thin, and often ungainly.
- Long and lean.
- Long, straight, and limp:
- Thin or emaciated:
- Bleak or desolate:
- Of, relating to, resembling, or consisting of bone.
- Having an internal skeleton of bones.
- Full of bones:
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Another word for angular
Modifier
Coming to an angle
- A line or course that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
- One of a series of such sharp turns.
- Something, such as a road or design, that exhibits one or a series of sharp turns.
- simple past tense and past participle of stagger
- Astonished, taken aback.
- referring to something that has been arranged in a way that is not uniform
- Marked by irregular projections and indentations on the edge or surface:
- Having a rough or harsh quality:
- Jagged; rough:
- Bony and lean:
- Having the shape of a rectangle.
- Having right angles or a rectangular base, side, or sides:
- Designating a geometric coordinate system with mutually perpendicular axes.
- Of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle.
- Having a triangle for a base:
- Relating to or involving three entities, such as three people, objects, or ideas.
- Having an end coming to a point.
- Sharp; cutting:
- Obviously directed at or making reference to a particular person or thing:
- Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.
- At an irregular or improper angle; askew:
- Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent.
- In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward:
- Placed in such a way as to have the hands on the hips and the elbows bowed outward:
- Being in a bent, bowed, or arched position:
- Altered from an originally straight or even condition:
- Determined to take a course of action:
- Corrupt; venal.
- Having a fork; bifurcate:
- Shaped like or similar to a fork:
- To diverge at a wide angle; spread apart.
- Branching or spreading widely from a point or axis, as the branches of a tree or shrub; diverging.
- Relating to a separation of two bones normally adjacent or attached but not located in a joint; distatic.
- Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.
- Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.
- Having the part on one side of the midrib of a different size or shape than the part on the other side. Used of a leaf.
- The act or action of crossing.
- A place at which roads, lines, or tracks intersect; an intersection.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway, for example, may be crossed:
- Present participle of intersect.
Antonyms:Tall and bony
- Lacking physical coordination, skill, or grace; awkward.
- Awkwardly constructed; unwieldy:
- Gauche; inept:
- Very thin and bony:
- Stunted or straggly:
- Awkward; ungainly.
- Awkwardly tall or long-limbed; rangy:
- To refrain from harming, injuring, destroying, or killing:
- To leave undamaged or unharmed:
- To refrain from denouncing or distressing; treat leniently or with consideration:
- Slender and elongated, especially in a way that suggests weakness.
- Difficult to bend or fold:
- Not moving or operating easily or freely; resistant:
- Lacking ease or comfort of movement; not limber:
- Tall, thin, and often ungainly.
- Lacking grace or ease of movement or form; clumsy.
- Difficult to move or use; unwieldy.
- Not graceful; ungainly.
- Not dexterous; clumsy.
- Clumsily or unskillfully performed:
- Of, relating to, resembling, or consisting of bone.
- Having an internal skeleton of bones.
- Full of bones:
- Having a lean, gaunt frame with prominent bones.
- Thin or emaciated:
- Bleak or desolate:
- To bend or slant away from the vertical.
- To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported:
- To rely for assistance or support:
- Long and lean.
- Long, straight, and limp:
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