Forked Synonyms and Antonyms

fôrkt, fôr'kĭd

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Synonyms for Forked

pronged
(Chiefly in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) prongs
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angled
Angled is defined as having an angle or angles.
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zigzag
Having the form of a zigzag
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branching
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bifurcate
Having bifurcations.
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furcate
Forked
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furcated
Forked or branched
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tridentate
(Botany) Having tooth-like projections that are themselves bidentate.
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trident
Having three teeth, prongs, or similar protrusions.
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branched
Having branches.
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crotched
(UK, dialect) cross; peevish
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double
(Music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
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biramous
Consisting of or having two branches, as the appendages of an arthropod.
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fork-like
resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
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forficate
(Zoology) Deeply forked, like the tails of certain birds.
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prongy
resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
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separated
To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
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ramified
To divide into branches or subdivisions.
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stabbed
To go into in a sharp, thrusting way
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split
To divide and share:
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pierced
To succeed in penetrating (something) with the eyes or the intellect:
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divided
To separate into parts; split up; sever
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diverged
(Mathematics) To fail to approach a limit.
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Antonyms for Forked

joined
going separate ways
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unbranched
(Organic chemistry) straight-chain
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Forked Sentence Examples

  • She forked some hay into each of the stalls and checked the herd again.

  • Spherical sacs, bearing forked spines, described by Williamson under the name of Zygosporites, are frequent, usually in an isolated state.

  • In Sphenophyllum majus, where the cones are less sharply defined, the forked bract bears a group of four sporangia at the bifurcations, but their mode of insertion has not yet been made out.

  • Two leaf-trace bundles started from each angle of the stele, and forked, in passing through the cortex, to supply the veins of the leaf, or its subdivisions.

  • It consists of a comparatively small and repeatedly forked axis bearing in each fork a flower; the flowers, which are regarded as male and female, appear to be similar to those of Bennettites.

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