What are some opposite words for curve?
Antonyms for curve
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This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term curve.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
curve
In some cases a thing is spoken of as bent where the parts make an angle; but oftener to bend is understood to be to draw to or through a curve; as, to bend a bow. To submit or yield is to bend the mind humbly to another's wishes. To incline or influence is to bend another's wishes toward our own; to persuade is to draw them quite over. To warp is to bend silently through the whole fiber, as a board in the sun. To crook is to bend irregularly, as a crooked stick. Deflect, deviate, and diverge are said of any turning away; deviate commonly of a slight and gradual movement, diverge of a more sharp and decided one. To bias is to cut across the texture, or incline to one side; in figurative use always with an unfavorable import. Mold is a stronger work than bend; we may bend by a superior force that which still resists the constraint; as, a bent bow; we mold something plastic entirely to some desired form.
Synonyms:
bend, bias, bow, crook, deflect, deviate, diverge, incline, influence, mold, persuade, stoop, submit, turn, twine, twist, warp, yield
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
curveverb
Antonyms:
straighten, unbend, rectilineatecurvenoun
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rigidity, inelasticity, inflexibility, rectilinearitySynonyms:
incurvation, flexion, deflexion
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Princeton's WordNet
curve, curved shapenoun
the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
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straight lineSynonyms:
bender, bend, curved shape, breaking ball, curvature, curve ballcurvenoun
a line on a graph representing data
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straight lineSynonyms:
bender, bend, curved shape, breaking ball, curvature, curve ballcurve, curve ball, breaking ball, bendernoun
a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
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straight lineSynonyms:
booze-up, toot, bender, carousal, carouse, curvature, bend, curve ball, curved shape, breaking ballcurvature, curvenoun
the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
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straight lineSynonyms:
bender, bend, curved shape, breaking ball, curvature, curve ballbend, curveverb
curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
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straight lineSynonyms:
turn, flexure, plication, breaking ball, twist, bend, bend dexter, crease, curvature, crimp, bending, fold, bender, crook, curve ball, curved shapeswerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cutverb
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
"The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
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straight lineSynonyms:
foreshorten, veer, bring down, wind, turn off, edit out, arch, twist, hack, trim down, write out, prune, thin, kink, cut, rationalize, trim back, trim, ignore, swerve, shorten, crook, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, rationalise, arc, contract, burn, dilute, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, slew, disregard, tailor, cut off, turn out, snub, slue, slide, issue, cut back, abbreviate, trend, curl, slip, skidwind, twist, curveverb
extend in curves and turns
"The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
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straight lineSynonyms:
bend, wriggle, wrick, wind, deform, nose, meander, hoist, thread, arch, twist, veer, rick, kink, worm, roll, lift, flex, convolute, writhe, scent, wrench, wind up, wrap, turn, sheer, wander, sophisticate, trend, sprain, swerve, slew, twist around, twine, distort, wrestle, wreathe, arc, squirm, slue, crook, weave, pervert, curl, cutarch, curve, arcverb
form an arch or curve
"her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"
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straight lineSynonyms:
trend, twist, sheer, kink, slue, arc, wind, veer, cut, slew, curl, crook, arch, swervecrook, curveverb
bend or cause to bend
"He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"
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straight lineSynonyms:
trend, twist, sheer, kink, slue, arc, wind, veer, cut, slew, curl, crook, arch, swervecurl, curve, kinkverb
form a curl, curve, or kink
"the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
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straight lineSynonyms:
wave, arc, curl up, sheer, slew, loop, twist, slue, curl, frizz, arch, crimp, cut, swerve, wind, crape, trend, kink up, coil, kink, crook, frizzle, veer, draw in
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
How to use curve in a sentence?
It’s hard to imagine, gosh, how could anybody get better than those guys ? climbing is a lot further along than it was 30 years ago on that curve toward athletic maturity, but I do n’t think it’s anywhere near the outer limits.
Maybe it is the appropriate thing to do in this environment,(but)if we are really going to give up on the Phillips Curve at the heart of central banking that would be a major change.
That’s early, historically, for major contenders to get in the race, so we’re slightly ahead of the power curve here. But I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see him do it in late May or early June.
I think we need to wait a bit longer for the curve to stabilise, we have to be smart.
Consumers have been absent from the market for a while, so that's why the back end of the curve has been so weak, they're (now) buying - and that's positive for fixed price.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#5714 | curve | |
#31409 | rigidity | |
#32067 | straighten | |
#95824 | inflexibility | |
#295871 | inelasticity |
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