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PARABOLICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parabolical mean?
• PARABOLICAL (adjective)
The adjective PARABOLICAL has 2 senses:
1. resembling or expressed by parables
2. having the form of a parabola
Familiarity information: PARABOLICAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling or expressed by parables
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
parabolic; parabolical
Pertainym:
parable (a short moral story (often with animal characters))
Derivation:
parable (a short moral story (often with animal characters))
parable ((New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having the form of a parabola
Synonyms:
parabolic; parabolical
Similar:
rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)
Derivation:
parabola (a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve)
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