pyramidal

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/pɪˈɹæm.ɪ.dl̩/

adjective

Pyramid-shaped.

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivepyramidal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegeometryPyramid-shaped.

    Among its attractive features were decorative, tile-hung Italianate towers with pyramidal roofs.

    2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost: Greenock Princes Pier”, in RAIL, number 979, page 52
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    At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 49

    Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.

    1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
    1. not comparablechemistryTetragonal.
nounpyramidal (plural pyramidals)

plural pyramidals

  1. anatomyOne of the carpal bones.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveresembling a pyramid

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Medieval Latinpȳramidālis
  2. Middle Englishpiramidal, piramydale
  3. Englishpyramidal

From Middle English piramidal, piramydale, from Medieval Latin pȳramidālis. By surface analysis, pyramid + -al.

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Translations

Catalan piramidal
  • piramidalpyramid-shaped
Czech pyramidový
  • pyramidovýpyramid-shaped
Dutch piramidaal
  • piramidaalpyramid-shaped
Finnish pyramidin muotoinen
  • pyramidin muotoinenpyramid-shaped
French pyramidal
  • pyramidalpyramid-shaped
German pyramidenförmig
  • pyramidenförmigpyramid-shaped
Greek πυραμιδικός, πυραμιδωτός
  • πυραμιδικός (pyramidikós)pyramid-shaped
  • πυραμιδωτός (pyramidotós)pyramid-shaped
  • πυραμιδοειδής (pyramidoeidís)pyramid-shaped
  • πυραμοειδής (pyramoeidís)pyramid-shaped
Hungarian piramidális
  • piramidálispyramid-shaped
Italian piramidale
  • piramidalepyramid-shaped
Latin pȳramidālis
  • pȳramidālispyramid-shaped
Polish piramidalny
  • piramidalnypyramid-shaped
Portuguese piramidal
  • piramidalpyramid-shaped
Russian пирамида́льный
  • пирамида́льный (piramidálʹnyj)pyramid-shaped
Spanish piramidal
  • piramidalpyramid-shaped
Swedish pyramidal, pyramidformad
  • pyramidalpyramid-shaped
  • pyramidformadpyramid-shaped
Tagalog tagiluin, gunong
  • tagiluinpyramid-shaped
  • gunongpyramid-shaped
Cite this entry
APA

pyramidal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyramidal

MLA

“pyramidal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyramidal. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pyramidal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyramidal.

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