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circumflexed

circumflexed is the simple past and past participle of circumflex.

Adjective

circumflexed (not comparable)

  1. Having a circumflex accent.
  2. Exhibiting a language-specific type of pitch accent or tone characterized by a circumflex accent mark in the language's transcription or orthography.

Meaning of circumflex

Verb

circumflex (third-person singular simple present circumflexes, present participle circumflexing, simple past and past participle circumflexed)

  1. To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
    • to circumflex a syllable
  2. (obsolete) To arch.
    • A venerable old man sitting in a chaire, with a severe aspect, wrinkled forehead, circumflex't eie-browes, great white curled beard.1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 105

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Words formed from circumflexed

Questions about circumflexed

What does circumflexed mean?
Circumflexed means having a circumflex accent.
What is circumflexed the simple past and past participle of?
Circumflexed is the simple past and past participle of circumflex.
What part of speech is circumflexed?
Circumflexed is an adjective.

Words near circumflexed in the dictionary

  1. circumflections
  2. circumflects
  3. circumflex
  4. circumflex accent
  5. circumflex accents
  6. circumflexed
  7. circumflexes
  8. circumflexing
  9. circumflexion
  10. circumflexions
  11. circumfluence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: circumflexed (page history and authors); circumflex (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.

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