Adjective: oval
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more oval |
| Superlative | most oval |
Sample Sentences
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oval conceptions
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Every congenital abnormality is doubtless due to a peculiarity in the sperm or oval elements or in their mingling, or to some disturbance in their early development. [1901, Havelock Ellis, Sexual inversion, page 187:]
Adjectives inflected like oval
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 Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570. See: Dutch Adjectives '
ovaal'.
Verbs referencing "oval"
Finnish Adjectives
ovaali.