Adjective: angular
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more angular |
| Superlative | most angular |
Sample Sentences
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an angular figure
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In overall appearance, katakana symbols are more angular in shape and hiragana are more rounded. Here are the first five sounds of each script (a, i, u, e, o). Compare these two sets of symbols and see if you can identify these features:
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Hiragana あ い う え お
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Katakana ア イ ウ エ オ [2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 31:]
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angular distance
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He's remarkably angular in his habits and appearance.
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She is an angular female.
Adjectives inflected like angular
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
From Middle English angular, anguler, from Latin angulāris, from angulus (“angle, corner”). See angle. See: Latin Adjectives '
angulāris'.