Synonyms of the word tapered


TAPEREDNARROW - NARROWING - POINTED - TAPERING

tapered

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of taper.
  • adj. narrowing gradually towards a point.
  • adj. (obsolete) lit with a taper.

narrow

  • adj. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison…
  • adj. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  • adj. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
  • adj. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted.
  • adj. Having a small margin or degree.
  • adj. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened.
  • adj. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  • adj. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  • adj. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate;…
  • v. (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
  • v. (intransitive) To get narrower.
  • v. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait…

narrowing

  • v. present participle of narrow.
  • n. The process of becoming narrow.
  • n. The part of a stocking that is narrowed.

pointed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of point.
  • adj. (comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
  • adj. (not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
  • adj. (comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic.

tapering

  • v. present participle of taper.
  • n. A tapered shape.

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