curved

Speech parts

1. curved - Adjective

2. curved - Verb

Meaning

of Curve

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rounded bent hooked curving crooked round twisted winding bowed vaulted warped wavy curvilinear tortuous sinuous
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Antonyms

straight god-fearing good direct flat linear
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Phrases with the word

knife with a curved blade curved fastener curved space curved inward curved line curved-legged

Examples

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God. Antoni Gaudí

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. Tennessee Williams

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. Albert Einstein

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art. Jean Dubuffet

Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points. Stephen Hawking

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. Harold Brodkey

Close letter words and terms

curve-winged apple moth curveball curveballer curved arc curved bacteria curved blade