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See also: -angular
English
Etymology
From Middle English angular, anguler, from Latin angulāris, from angulus (“angle, corner”). See angle.
Pronunciation
Adjective
angular (comparative more angular, superlative most angular)
- Relating or pertaining to an angle, or angles.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner.
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- an angular figure
- 2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 31:
- In overall appearance, katakana symbols are more angular in shape and hiragana are more rounded. Here are the first five sounds of each script (a, i, u, e, o). Compare these two sets of symbols and see if you can identify these features:
Hiragana あ い う え お
Katakana ア イ ウ エ オ
- Measured by an angle.
- angular distance
- Lean, lank.
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- (figuratively) Sharp and stiff in character.
- (organic chemistry) Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
Derived terms
- acutangular
- anangular
- angulaperturate
- angular acceleration
- angular aperture
- angular artery
- angular cheilitis
- angular defect
- angular displacement
- angular distance
- angular frequency
- angular gyrus
- angular harp
- angularity
- angularize
- angularly
- angular magnification
- angular mil
- angular momentum
- angular motion
- angularness
- angular-nodulose
- angular position
- angular stomatitis
- angular-tubercate
- angular unconformity
- angular unit
- angular vein
- angular velocity
- angular-winged katydid
- biangular
- decangular
- distoangular
- equangular
- equiangular
- heptangular
- hexangular
- inangular
- interangular
- mesioangular
- multiangular
- nonangular
- obtuse-angular
- octangular
- pentangular
- Planck angular frequency
- polyangular
- quinquangular
- right-angular
- septangular
- sexangular
- subangular
- supraangular
- surangular
- unangular
- uniangular
Translations
relating to or forming an angle; sharp-cornered
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measured by an angle
ungraceful — see ungraceful
Noun
angular (plural angulars)
- (anatomy) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
Anagrams
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
angular m or f (masculine and feminine plural angulars)
Related terms
Further reading
- “angular”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
- “angular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “angular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “angular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin angulāris.
Adjective
angular m or f (plural angulares)
Related terms
Further reading
- “angular”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin angulāris (“angular”), from angulus (“corner; angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos.
Pronunciation
Adjective
angular m or f (plural angulares)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
angular (first-person singular present angulo, first-person singular preterite angulei, past participle angulado)
- to bend so it forms an angle
- Angulei meus joelhos. ― I bent my knees.
- Meus joelhos angulam. ― My knees are bent.
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
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Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
angular m or n (feminine singular angulară, masculine plural angulari, feminine and neuter plural angulare)
Declension
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin angulāris.
Adjective
angular m or f (masculine and feminine plural angulares)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
angular (first-person singular present angulo, first-person singular preterite angulé, past participle angulado)
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Conjugation
Derived terms
Further reading
- “angular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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