curved

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɜːvd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɝːvd/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vd

Adjective

curved (comparative more curved, superlative most curved)

1. Having a curve or curves; curving.
   • 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 37:

     These VEAs (of which some 550 were built in total) would themselves have been converted from 1962 vanwides, refurbished and fitted with airbrakes specifically with Ministry of Defence munitions traffic in mind, as many military establishments and depots would have had track too sharply curved for newer airbraked wagons.

   • 1886, James E. Doyle, The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations, page 110:

     CREST - Out of a wreath or & azure, an Indian King's head in profile proper, crowned or, with high cap curved forward gules having at the point a small bell.

Synonyms

• (having a curve):
  • (for two-dimensional shapes): bent, hooked
  • (for three-dimensional shapes): rounded
• (having curves): curvy, sinuous, tortuous, wavy

Antonyms

• flat, straight

Derived terms

• curved edge
• curvedly
• curvedness
• curved woodrush
• decurved
• downcurved
• hypercurved
• incurved
• noncurved
• precurved
• procurved
• retrocurved
• uncurved
• undercurved
• upcurved

 

Translations

having a curve or curves

Assamese: বেঁকা (bẽka) Azerbaijani: əyri (az) Bashkir: кәкре Belarusian: вы́гнуты (výhnuty), крывы́ (kryvý) Bulgarian: извит (bg) (izvit) Catalan: corb (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 彎曲／弯曲 (zh) (wānqū) Dutch: gebogen (nl), krom (nl) Esperanto: kurba French: courbé (fr) Georgian: გაღუნული (gaɣunuli), მოღუნული (moɣunuli), დაღუნული (daɣunuli), დაღრეცილი (daɣrecili) German: gebogen (de) Greek: Ancient: σκολιός (skoliós), ἀγκύλος (ankúlos), καμπύλος (kampúlos) Hindi: वक्र (hi) m (vakra), टेढ़ा m (ṭeṛhā) Hungarian: görbe (hu) Indonesian: lengkung (id) Irish: cuar, cuarach, cuartha Italian: curvo (it) m, ricurvo (it) m Latin: curvus, arcuātus Norwegian: Bokmål: buet (no), bua Nynorsk: boga Old English: ġebogen (ang) Persian: خمیده (fa) (xamide) Plautdietsch: kromm Portuguese: curvo (pt), curvado (pt) Romanian: curbat (ro) Russian: изо́гнутый (ru) (izógnutyj), искривлённый (iskrivljónnyj), криво́й (ru) (krivój), со́гнутый (ru) (sógnutyj), вы́гнутый (ru) (výgnutyj) Sanskrit: भुग्न (sa) (bhugna) Scottish Gaelic: crom, lùbach Spanish: curvo (es) Swedish: kurvig (sv), krokig (sv), böjd (sv), krum (sv) Turkish: eğri (tr), kavisli (tr) Ukrainian: ви́гнутий (výhnutyj), зігну́тий (zihnútyj), криви́й (kryvýj) Vietnamese: cong (vi)

Verb

curved

1. simple past and past participle of curve

References

• “curved”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.