diametrical

Questions about diametrical

What does diametrical mean?

diametrical means "related to or along a diameter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diametrical?

diametrical has 5 syllables: di-a-me-tri-cal. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for diametrical?

Close synonyms include diametral, diametric, diametric, opposite, polar. 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 diametrical a common word?

diametrical 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.