sculptural relief

Questions about sculptural relief

What does sculptural relief mean?

sculptural relief means "sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background".

What is another word for sculptural relief?

Close synonyms include relief, relievo, rilievo, embossment. 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 sculptural relief a common word?

sculptural 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.