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curved

UK/kɜːvd//kɝːvd/

curved adjective: having a curve or curves; curving. Also the simple past and past participle of curve.

Adjective

curved (comparative more curved, superlative most curved)

  1. Having a curve or curves; curving.
    • These VEAs (of which some 550 were built in total) would themselves have been converted from 1962 vanwides, refurbished and fitted with airbrakes specifically with Ministry of Defence munitions traffic in mind, as many military establishments and depots would have had track too sharply curved for...2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 37
    • CREST - Out of a wreath or & azure, an Indian King's head in profile proper, crowned or, with high cap curved forward gules having at the point a small bell.1886, James E. Doyle, The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations, page 110

Also used as

curved is also the simple past and past participle of curve.

curved meaning in Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit and Assamese

curved in Hindi

having a curve or curves
वक्र vakra, टेढ़ा ṭeṛhā

curved in Kannada

ವಕ್ರವಾಗಿದೆ

curved in Sanskrit

having a curve or curves
भुग्न bhugna

curved in Assamese

having a curve or curves
বেঁকা bẽka
More languagesFewer languages
curved in Arabic
مُنْثَنٍ munṯanin
curved in Indonesian
lengkung
curved in Persian
خمیده xamide
curved in Vietnamese
cong

Synonyms of curved

Antonyms

Forms of curved

comparativemore curved
superlativemost curved

Words formed from curved

Phrases with curved

Words that rhyme with curved

Questions about curved

What does curved mean?
Curved means having a curve or curves; curving.
What is curved in Hindi?
Curved in Hindi is वक्र (vakra), टेढ़ा (ṭeṛhā). See Curved meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is curved?
Curved is an adjective.
How do you pronounce curved?
Curved is pronounced /kɜːvd/ (UK).

Words near curved in the dictionary

  1. curveballed
  2. curveballer
  3. curveballers
  4. curveballing
  5. curveballs
  6. curved
  7. Curved Bar
  8. curved edge
  9. curved woodrush
  10. curvedly
  11. curvedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curved (page history and authors); curved (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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