curvilineal

1. 1.

   characterized by or following a curved line

   “curvilinear tracery”

   “curvilinear motion”

   Synonymscurvilinear

   Similarcurved

Questions about curvilineal

What does curvilineal mean?

curvilineal means "characterized by or following a curved line".

How many syllables are in curvilineal?

curvilineal has 5 syllables: cur-vi-li-ne-al. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for curvilineal?

Close synonyms include curvilinear. 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 curvilineal a common word?

curvilineal 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.