Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of groove
comparative more grooved · superlative most grooved
- Having one or more grooves.
The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.
1954 September, George Behrend, “The Nyon-St. Cergue-Morez Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 605
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveestablished as if settled into a groove or rut
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
German gerillt
- gerillthaving grooves
Italian scanalare
- scanalarehaving grooves
Latin striātus
- striātushaving grooves
Māori kōwakawaka, kōakaaka
- kōwakawakahaving grooves
- kōakaakahaving grooves
- kōawaawahaving grooves
Russian желобчатый
- желобчатый (želobčatyj)having grooves
Spanish estriado, acanalado
- estriadohaving grooves
- acanaladohaving grooves
- canaladohaving grooves
- buidohaving grooves
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Cite this entry
grooved. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grooved
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