half-relief

1. 1.

   a sculptural relief between low relief and high relief

   Synonymsmezzo-relievomezzo-rilievo

   Broaderrelief

Questions about half-relief

What does half-relief mean?

half-relief means "a sculptural relief between low relief and high relief".

How many syllables are in half-relief?

half-relief has 3 syllables: hal-f-re-lief. The stress falls on "hal".

What is another word for half-relief?

Close synonyms include mezzo-relievo, mezzo-rilievo. 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 half-relief a common word?

half-relief 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.