columnar

1. 1.

   having the form of a column

   “trees with columniform trunks”

   “columnar forms”

   “a columnlike tree trunk”

   Synonymscolumniformcolumnlike

   Similarcolumned
2. 2.

   characterized by columns

   “columnar construction”

   Similarcolumned

Questions about columnar

What does columnar mean?

columnar means "having the form of a column". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in columnar?

columnar has 3 syllables: co-lum-nar. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for columnar?

Close synonyms include columniform, columnlike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is columnar a common word?

columnar 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.