Antonyms for linear

Grammar : Adj

Spell : lin-ee-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɪn i ər

Definition of linear

Origin : 1640s, from French linéaire, from Latin linearis "belonging to a line," from linea "string, line" (see line (n.)). Essentially the same word as lineal; "in Latin linearis the original suffix -alis was dissimilated to -aris, but in Late Latin this rule was no longer productive and the formation or re-formation in -alis remained unchanged." [Barnhart]. Linear A and Linear B (1902-3) were names given to two related forms of linear Minoan writing discovered 1894-1901 in Crete by Sir Arthur Evans.

As in narrow : adj confined, restricted
As in straight : adj aligned; not curved
As in streaked : adj having streaks
As in direct : adj undeviating; uninterrupted

Example sentences :

Linear, elongated oblong, more than three times as long as wide.
Extract from : « Trees of the Northern United States » by Austin C. Apgar

To this linear perspective is added moreover an atmospheric perspective.
Extract from : « Chinese Painters » by Raphael Petrucci

Linear Logic Language, the pitfall of all the old researchers.
Extract from : « The K-Factor » by Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

The Egyptians do not appear to have made any use of linear perspective.
Extract from : « The Theory and Practice of Perspective » by George Adolphus Storey

They ascertain politics as sequential, linear, and deterministic.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

They are pure or linear, the latter being a reduction of the former.
Extract from : « Museum of Antiquity » by L. W. Yaggy

By linear, or perhaps, more correctly, rectilinear incision.
Extract from : « A Manual of the Operations of Surgery » by Joseph Bell

Do you notice the two words I have just used, Decision, and Linear?
Extract from : « Ariadne Florentina » by John Ruskin

In these cases the fruits may be united together in a ring or in linear series.
Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters

Linear drawing, and pencilling, are designed also to be a part of the course.
Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher

Synonyms for linear

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