Synonyms of the word ovate


OVATEEGG-SHAPED - ELLIPTIC - ELLIPTICAL - OVAL - OVIFORM - OVOID - PROLATE - ROUNDED - SIMPLE

ovate

  • adj. Shaped like an egg.
  • adj. (botany) Egg-shaped, with the broadest extremity near the base.

egg-shaped

  • adj. Having the shape of an egg.

elliptic

  • adj. (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
  • adj. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating…
  • adj. (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying…

elliptical

  • adj. In a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.
  • adj. Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
  • adj. (of speech) Concise, condensed.
  • adj. (mathematics, rare) Elliptic.
  • adj. Being flat and in the shape of a twice-symmetrical ellipse; oval.
  • n. (astronomy) An elliptical galaxy.
  • n. An elliptical trainer.

oval

  • n. A shape rather like an egg or an ellipse.
  • n. A sporting arena etc. of this shape.
  • n. (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points, no three collinear, such that there is a unique…
  • adj. Having the shape of an oval.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an ovum.

oviform

  • adj. egg-shaped, having the shape of an egg.

ovoid

  • adj. Shaped like an oval.
  • adj. Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate.
  • n. Something that is oval in shape.

prolate

  • adj. Elongated at the poles.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To utter; to pronounce.

rounded

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of round.
  • adj. Made into a circle or sphere.
  • adj. Complete or balanced.
  • adj. (mathematics) Describing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value.
  • adj. (botany) Ending in a broad arch.
  • adj. (linguistics, of a vowel) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; see rounded vowel.

simple

  • adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
  • adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
  • adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
  • adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
  • adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
  • adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
  • adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
  • n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
  • n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
  • n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
  • n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
  • n. (weaving) A drawloom.
  • n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

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