English > circular: 3 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Having a circular shape. |
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Synonym | round |
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Narrower | apple-shaped | Having the general shape of an apple |
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ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical | Having the shape of a sphere or ball |
barrel-shaped | Having the general shape of a barrel |
bulblike, bulbous, bulb-shaped | shaped like a bulb |
capitate | abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip |
coccoid | Spherical |
cumuliform | shaped like a cumulus cloud |
discoid, discoidal, disklike, disclike, disk-shaped, disc-shaped | Having a flat circular shape |
goblet-shaped | resembling the shape of a goblet |
moonlike, moon-round | resembling the moon in shape |
nutlike | resembling a nut in shape and size |
pancake-like | resembling a pancake in shape |
pear-shaped | Having a round shape tapered at one end |
pinwheel-shaped | Having the round shape of a pinwheel |
ringlike | Having the shape of a ring |
roundish | Somewhat round in appearance or form |
wheel-like | round like a wheel |
See also | rounded | curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged |
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Opposite | square | Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle |
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Spanish | circular, redondo |
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Catalan | circular, rodó |
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Nouns | circle | ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length |
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circularity | the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure |
Verbs | circularize | make circular |
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