Meanings
comparative more curved · superlative most curved
- Having a curve or curves; curving.
CREST - Out of a wreath or & azure, an Indian King's head in profile proper, crowned or, with high cap curved forward gules having at the point a small bell.
1886, James E. Doyle, The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations, page 1101 more example
These VEAs (of which some 550 were built in total) would themselves have been converted from 1962 vanwides, refurbished and fitted with airbrakes specifically with Ministry of Defence munitions traffic in mind, as many military establishments and depots would have had track too sharply curved for newer airbraked wagons.
2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 37Synonyms: bent, hooked, rounded, curvy, sinuous, tortuous, wavy
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of curve
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Ancient Greek σκολιός, ἀγκύλος
- σκολιός (skoliós)having a curve or curves
- ἀγκύλος (ankúlos)having a curve or curves
- καμπύλος (kampúlos)having a curve or curves
Arabic مُنْثَنٍ
- مُنْثَنٍ (munṯanin)having a curve or curves
Bulgarian извит
- извит (izvit)having a curve or curves
Catalan corb
- corbhaving a curve or curves
Chinese Mandarin 彎曲 /弯曲
- 彎曲 /弯曲 (wānqū)having a curve or curves
Czech ohnutý
- ohnutýhaving a curve or curves
Dutch gebogen, krom
- gebogenhaving a curve or curves
- kromhaving a curve or curves
Esperanto kurba
- kurbahaving a curve or curves
French courbé
- courbéhaving a curve or curves
German gebogen
- gebogenhaving a curve or curves
Hawaiian piʻo
- piʻohaving a curve or curves
Hindi वक्र, टेढ़ा
- वक्र (vakra)having a curve or curves
- टेढ़ा (ṭeṛhā)having a curve or curves
Hungarian görbe
- görbehaving a curve or curves
Indonesian lengkung
- lengkunghaving a curve or curves
Irish cuar, cuarach
- cuarhaving a curve or curves
- cuarachhaving a curve or curves
- cuarthahaving a curve or curves
Italian curvo, ricurvo
- curvohaving a curve or curves
- ricurvohaving a curve or curves
Latin curvus, arcuātus
- curvushaving a curve or curves
- arcuātushaving a curve or curves
Māori mingi, piki
- mingihaving a curve or curves
- pikihaving a curve or curves
- pikohaving a curve or curves
Norwegian Bokmål buet, bua
- buethaving a curve or curves
- buahaving a curve or curves
Persian خمیده
- خمیده (xamide)having a curve or curves
Portuguese curvo, curvado
- curvohaving a curve or curves
- curvadohaving a curve or curves
Romanian curbat
- curbathaving a curve or curves
Russian изо́гнутый, искривлённый
- изо́гнутый (izógnutyj)having a curve or curves
- искривлённый (iskrivljónnyj)having a curve or curves
- криво́й (krivój)having a curve or curves
- со́гнутый (sógnutyj)having a curve or curves
- вы́гнутый (výgnutyj)having a curve or curves
Scottish Gaelic crom, lùbach
- cromhaving a curve or curves
- lùbachhaving a curve or curves
Spanish curvado, encorvado
- curvadohaving a curve or curves
- encorvadohaving a curve or curves
- combadohaving a curve or curves
Swedish kurvig, krokig
- kurvighaving a curve or curves
- krokighaving a curve or curves
- böjdhaving a curve or curves
- krumhaving a curve or curves
Turkish eğri, kavisli
- eğrihaving a curve or curves
- kavislihaving a curve or curves
Ukrainian ви́гнутий, зігну́тий
- ви́гнутий (výhnutyj)having a curve or curves
- зігну́тий (zihnútyj)having a curve or curves
- криви́й (kryvýj)having a curve or curves
Vietnamese cong
- conghaving a curve or curves
Cite this entry
curved. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curved
“curved.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curved. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “curved,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curved.
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