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an·gu·lar  (nggy-lr)
adj.
1. Having, forming, or consisting of an angle or angles.
2. Measured by an angle or by degrees of an arc.
3. Bony and lean; gaunt: an angular face.
4. Lacking grace or smoothness; awkward: an angular gait.
5. Rigid, stiff, and unyielding in character or disposition: "the cold, angular brand of materialism" David K. Willis.

[Latin angulris, from angulus, angle.]

angu·lar·ly adv.
angu·lar·ness n.

angular
Adjective
1. lean and bony: his angular face
2. having an angle or angles
3. measured by an angle: angular momentum
angularity n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.angular - measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle; "angular momentum"
2.angular - having angles or an angular shape
pointed - having a point
square - having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
rounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"

angular
adjective skinny, spare, lean, gaunt, bony, lanky, scrawny, lank, rangy, rawboned, macilent (rare)
Translations
Spanish angular [ˈæŋgjuləʳ] adj [shape] → angular; [features] → anguloso
French angular [ˈæŋgjuləʳ] adjanguleux/euse
German angular [ˈæŋgjuləʳ] adjeckig;
(features) → kantig

Italian angular [ˈæŋgjuləʳ] adjangolare

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Othenwise, being a particularly Angular man, I should not have intruded here.
The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the after bulwarks.
For one was alive and the other moved by means of machinery; one was tall and angular and the other short and round.
 
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