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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 [ˈæŋgjʊlə]
adj
1. lean or bony
2. awkward or stiff in manner or movement
3. (Mathematics) having an angle or angles
4. placed at an angle
5. (Mathematics) measured by an angle or by the rate at which an angle changes
[from Latin angulāris, from angulus angle1]
angularly  adv
angularness  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) He had an angular face with prominent cheekbones.
Translations
angular [ˈæŋgjʊləʳ] ADJ [shape, lines] → angular; [face, features] → anguloso

angular [ˈæŋgjʊr] adj [object, furniture] → anguleux/euse; [lines, shape] → anguleux/euse; [face, features] → anguleux/euse

angular
adj
shapeeckig; face, features, prosekantig
(= bony)knochig
(= awkward)linkisch, steif

angular [ˈæŋgjʊləʳ] adjangoloso/a, spigoloso/a; (measurement) → angolare

angular, angularity angle


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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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