Antonyms for rectilinear

Grammar : Adj

Spell : rek-tl-in-ee-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˌrɛk tlˈɪn i ər

Definition of rectilinear

Origin : "forming a straight line," 1650s, with -ar + rectiline (1560s), from Late Latin rectilineus, from rectus "straight" (see right (adj.1)) + linea "line" (see line (n.)). Related: Rectilineal (1640s).

As in square : adj four-sided
As in straight : adj aligned; not curved

Example sentences :

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

The English letters are much more sober and rectilinear in character.
Extract from : « Lessons in the Art of Illuminating » by W. J. Loftie

Patagium incomplete, enveloping only the basal half of the arms, with four to five rectilinear parallel chamber-rows.
Extract from : « Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) » by Ernst Haeckel

Kepler, on the other hand, was no less in error in considering their paths to be rectilinear.
Extract from : « Comets and Meteors » by Daniel Kirkwood

Quite soon you will begin to find that everything is too rectilinear.
Extract from : « Wings and the Child » by E. [Edith] Nesbit

And a rectilinear process has no right to get into a circle!
Extract from : « Social Value » by B. M. Anderson

Rectilinear routes are routes which in a sense lie in rects.
Extract from : « The Concept of Nature » by Alfred North Whitehead

It may be some other body, moving, but moving in a rectilinear direction.
Extract from : « Plato's Doctrine respecting the rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment upon that Doctrine » by George Grote

That when moved, its motion is rotatory and not rectilinear, it owes to its own nature.
Extract from : « Plato's Doctrine respecting the rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment upon that Doctrine » by George Grote

The chief member of the cornice, directly beneath the gutter, by its great projection and rectilinear faces forming the drip.
Extract from : « History of Ancient Art » by Franz von Reber

Synonyms for rectilinear

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019