Word Meanings - INCURVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bend; to curve; to make crooked. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCURVE)

• Curve Incurve
• bend
• inflex
• falcate
• arcuate
• Droop
• Sink
• flag
• decline
• pine
• languish
• drop
• incurve
• fade

Related words: (words related to INCURVE)

• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• 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
• 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.
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• LANGUISH
  languere; cf. Gr. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and 1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases.
• INFLEXED
  Bent or turned abruptly inwards, or toward the axis, as the petals of a flower. (more info) 1. Turned; bent. Feltham.
• 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.
• DECLINER
  He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
• LANGUISHNESS
  Languishment.
• 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.
• LANGUISHMENT
  1. The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak. 2. Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
• 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.
• 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