Adjective: aerodynamic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more aerodynamic |
| Superlative | most aerodynamic |
Sample Sentences
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The faster an F1 car goes, the more turbulent the aerodynamic wake it leaves behind it. [2024 April 3, Joe Holding, Rebecca Braybrook, “What do DRS, black and white flag, porpoising and more mean? F1 terms explained”, in Autosport, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2025:]
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aerodynamic plane
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aerodynamic vehicle
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aerodynamic wings
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At its rear, "space-grade" solar panels constantly reposition themselves to face the sun, thanks to an algorithm that combines GPS, the car's direction and the time of the day to work out the sun's position; the glass canopy makes the car aerodynamic and lets in 95% of the sunlight. [2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2023, page 34:]
Adjectives inflected like aerodynamic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
4. Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
5. Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
6. Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der.
7. English aero-
8. Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
9. Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
10. Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
11. Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
12. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
13. Proto-Hellenic *-kos
14. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
15. Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
16. Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
17. French dynamiqueder.
18. English dynamic
19. English aerodynamic
20. From aero- + dynamic, after aerodynamics. Compare French aérodynamique and German aerodynamisch. See: French Adjectives '
aérodynamique', German Adjectives '
aerodynamisch'.