rhomboid

1. 1.

   shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid

   “rhomboidal shapes”

   Synonymsrhomboidal

Other forms of rhomboid

plural

rhomboids·

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 rhomboid

What does rhomboid mean?

rhomboid means "a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rhomboid?

rhomboid has 2 syllables: rhom-boid. The stress falls on "rhom".

What is another word for rhomboid?

Close synonyms include rhomboid muscle, rhomboidal. 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 rhomboid a common word?

rhomboid 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.