Word.ws English Dictionary

centripedal

centripedal is the misspelling of centripetal.

Meaning of centripetal

Adjective

centripetal (not comparable)

  1. Directed or moving towards a centre.
    • It was a centripetal time, with me at the centre, everything gravitating towards me.1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 141
  2. Directed towards the central nervous system; afferent.

Questions about centripedal

What is centripedal the misspelling of?
Centripedal is the misspelling of centripetal.

Words near centripedal in the dictionary

  1. centriolar
  2. centriole
  3. centrioles
  4. centriolin
  5. centriologenesis
  6. centripedal
  7. centripetal
  8. centripetal acceleration
  9. centripetal force
  10. centripetal forces
  11. centripetalism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: centripedal (page history and authors); centripetal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “centripedal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/centripedal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.