incurvate

Other forms of incurvate

past tense

incurvated·

present participle

incurvating·

third person

incurvates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about incurvate

What does incurvate mean?

incurvate means "bend inwards". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incurvate?

incurvate has 3 syllables: in-cur-vate. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for incurvate?

Close synonyms include incurved. 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 incurvate a common word?

incurvate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.