cigar-shaped

adjective

Having a form that roughly resembles a cigar; long and cylindrical with tapering ends.

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fusiformspindle-shapedpointed
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Meanings

adjectivecigar-shaped (comparative more cigar-shaped, superlative most cigar-shaped)

comparative more cigar-shaped · superlative most cigar-shaped

  1. Having a form that roughly resembles a cigar; long and cylindrical with tapering ends.

    The Winans, cigar-shaped steamer, had been further tried at Baltimore.

    1859 October 8, The Argus, Melbourne, page 1, column 4
    1 more example

    "We were looking east through the rectory window at a rainbow when my wife spotted a grey, cigar-shaped object emerging from the rainstorm."

    1965, James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 77

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivetapering at each end

Similar
fusiformspindle-shapedpointed
Also see
fusiformspindle-shaped

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

cigar-shaped. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cigar-shaped

MLA

“cigar-shaped.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cigar-shaped. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cigar-shaped,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cigar-shaped.

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