anticlinal

1. 1.

   sloping downward away from a common crest

   Antonymssynclinal

   geology

Questions about anticlinal

What does anticlinal mean?

anticlinal means "sloping downward away from a common crest".

How many syllables are in anticlinal?

anticlinal has 4 syllables and divides as an-ti-cli-nal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of anticlinal?

The recorded antonyms are synclinal.

Is anticlinal a common word?

anticlinal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.