English > circular: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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