Meanings
- 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 522 more examples
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 49Below 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- not comparablechemistryTetragonal.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveresembling a pyramid
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Medieval Latinpȳramidālis
- Middle Englishpiramidal, piramydale
- Englishpyramidal
From Middle English piramidal, piramydale, from Medieval Latin pȳramidālis. By surface analysis, pyramid + -al.
More words from Middle English, Medieval Latin
Full word history & related roots →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
pyramidal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyramidal
“pyramidal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyramidal. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pyramidal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyramidal.
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