CURVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curved mean? 

• CURVED (adjective)
  The adjective CURVED has 1 sense:

1. having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend

  Familiarity information: CURVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend

Synonyms:

curved; curving

Context example:

his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard

Similar:

arced; arched; arching; arciform; arcuate; bowed (forming or resembling an arch)

curvilineal; curvilinear (characterized by or following a curved line)

eellike (resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous)

falcate; falciform; sickle-shaped (curved like a sickle)

curvey; curvy (having curves)

flexuous (having turns or windings)

hooked; hooklike (having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold))

incurvate; incurved (bent into or having an inward curve)

recurvate; recurved (curved backward or inward)

semicircular (curved into a half circle)

serpentine; snakelike; snaky (resembling a serpent in form)

sinuate; sinuous; wiggly (curved or curving in and out)

sinusoidal (having a succession of waves or curves)

upcurved (curving upward)

Antonym:

straight (free from curves or angles)

 Context examples 

I looked at that delicately curved nose, at the marked eyebrows, at the straight mouth, and the strong little chin beneath it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A curved gray matter structure of the temporal lobe lying on the floor of the lateral ventricle of the brain.

(Hippocampus, NCI Thesaurus)

The red arcs are narrow, curved lines on the moon's surface, and are among the most unusual color features on Saturn's moons to be revealed by Cassini's cameras.

(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

The thick curved ridge in the upper area of the ilium.

(Iliac Crest, NCI Thesaurus)

He sniffed his hand and dropped down heavily at his feet, watching the trail where it curved emptily from view.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In the eye, the lens is a clear, curved structure at the front of the eye behind the pupil.

(Lens, NCI Dictionary)

They have difficulties walking; hip, finger and foot deformities; and abnormally curved spines diagnosed as progressive scoliosis.

(“Sixth sense” may be more than just a feeling, NIH)

The curved cartilage ridge on the flap of the ear that is parallel to the helix.

(Antihelix, NCI Thesaurus)

A form or shape that is folded in curved or tortuous windings.

(Convolution, NCI Thesaurus)

A very thin, curved lamina comprised of subcortical gray matter that is lateral to the putamen, medial to the insular cortex, and between the external and extreme capsules.

(Claustrum, NCI Thesaurus)