What is another word for cylindrical?

Pronunciation: [sɪlˈɪndɹɪkə͡l] (IPA)

Cylindrical is an adjective that refers to an object or shape that is round and has straight sides that are the same distance apart. There are several synonyms for the word cylindrical that can be used depending on the context. Some of these synonyms include columnar, tubular, barreled, rounded, or barrel-shaped. These words can be used to describe a variety of objects, such as pillars, tubes, barrels, or even certain types of fruits and vegetables. Using synonyms for cylindrical can help to keep writing interesting and varied while still maintaining meaning and clarity.

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What are the opposite words for cylindrical?

Cylindrical means having the shape of a cylinder, which is a long, straight object with circular ends. The antonym of cylindrical is not easy to find since it refers to a specific shape. However, some possible antonyms include irregular, amorphous, angular or cubical. Irregular objects have no defined shape or symmetry, while amorphous objects lack a clear shape altogether. Angular objects have sharp edges and corners, while cubical objects have a solid shape with six equal sides. These antonyms differ from cylindrical as they have varying shapes and properties.

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Usage examples for Cylindrical

Each woman has an assortment of lacquered ware, orange and red, delicately patterned cylindrical boxes, with neatly fitting trays and lids, and bowls, trays, and priests' luncheon baskets-large bowls with trays and smaller bowls inside each other, rising to a point with a cup over the top.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Geologists explain the creation of this cylindrical hollow in a much more reasonable and satisfactory manner.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
The stem is stout, nearly cylindrical, hollow, bulbous.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson

Famous quotes with Cylindrical

  • Anaximander displays all the symptoms of the intellectual fever spreading through Greece. His universe is no longer a closed box, but infinite in extension and duration. The raw material is none of the familiar forms of matter but a substance without definite properties except for being indestructible and everlasting. Out of this stuff all things are developed, and into it they return... infinite multitudes of other universes have already existed, and been dissolved again into the amorphous mass. The earth is a cylindrical column, surrounded by air; it floats upright... without support or anything to stand on, yet it does not fall because, being in the centre, it has no preferred direction... if it did, this would disturb the symmetry and balance of the whole. The spherical heavens enclose the atmosphere "like the bark of a tree", and there are several layers... to accommodate the various stellar objects. ...The sun is merely a hole... the moon... it phases... due to recurrent partial stoppages of the puncture, and so are the eclipses. The stars are pin-holes in a dark fabric through which we glimpse the cosmic fire filling the space between two layers of "bark". ...it is the first approach to a mechanical model of the universe. ...yet the machinery looks like it had been dreamed up by a surrealist painter... closer to Picasso than to Newton.
    Anaximander
  • The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
    Anaximander

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