pyramidal
/pɪˈɹæm.ɪ.dl̩/
pyramidal adjective: pyramid-shaped.
Adjective
pyramidal (not comparable)
- Pyramid-shaped.
- At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 49
- Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
Noun
pyramidal (plural pyramidals)
- One of the carpal bones.
pyramidal meaning in Kannada and Tagalog
pyramidal in Kannada
- ಸ್ತೂಪಾಕಾರದ, ಗೋಪುರದ ಆಕಾರದ, ಪಿರಮಿಡ್ಡಿನ
pyramidal in Tagalog
- pyramid-shaped
- tagiluin, gunong
Forms of pyramidal
| plural | pyramidals |
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Origin of pyramidal
From Middle English piramidal, piramydale, from Medieval Latin pȳramidālis. By surface analysis, pyramid + -al.
Words formed from pyramidal
- peripyramidal
- bipyramidal
- dipyramidal
- extrapyramidal
- infrapyramidal
- interpyramidal
- intrapyramidal
- nonpyramidal
- obpyramidal
- parapyramidal
- pyramidal cell
- pyramidalism
- pyramidalize
- pyramidalized
- pyramidally
- pyramidal neuron
- pyramidal number
- pyramidal tract
- subpyramidal
- superpyramidal
- suprapyramidal
- tetrapyramidal
Phrases with pyramidal
Questions about pyramidal
- What does pyramidal mean?
- Pyramidal means pyramid-shaped.
- What is pyramidal in Kannada?
- Pyramidal in Kannada is ಸ್ತೂಪಾಕಾರದ, ಗೋಪುರದ ಆಕಾರದ, ಪಿರಮಿಡ್ಡಿನ. See Pyramidal meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is pyramidal?
- Pyramidal can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce pyramidal?
- Pyramidal is pronounced /pɪˈɹæm.ɪ.dl̩/.
Words near pyramidal in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pyramidal (page history and authors); pyramidal (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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