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Word Meanings - INFLEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect. J. Philips.

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  • INFLEXIBLE
    1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
  • CURVE
    Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
  • FALCATE; FALCATED
    Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.
  • INFLEXIVE
    1. Inflective. "Inflexive endings." W. E. Jelf. 2. Inflexible. "Foes inflexive." Chapman.
  • INFLEXED
    Bent or turned abruptly inwards, or toward the axis, as the petals of a flower. (more info) 1. Turned; bent. Feltham.
  • INFLEX
    To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect. J. Philips.
  • INCURVED
    Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.
  • INFLEXIBILITY
    The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The
  • INFLEXURE
    An inflection; a bend or fold. Sir T. Browne.
  • ARCUATE; ARCUATED
    Bent or curved in the form of a bow. "Arcuate stalks." Gray.
  • CURVEDNESS
    The state of being curved.
  • INFLEXIBLENESS
    The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
  • CURVET
    A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
  • ARCUATELY
    In the form of a bow.
  • INFLEXION
    Inflection.
  • INCURVE
    To bend; to curve; to make crooked. (more info) Etym:
  • INFLEXIBLY
    In an inflexible manner.
  • SUBARCUATE; SUBARCUATED
    Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.
  • RECURVE
    To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
  • DEFALCATE
    To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. (more info) orig., to cut off with a sickle; L. de- + falx, a sickle. See
  • RECURVED
    Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

 

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