Synonyms for linear
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : lin-ee-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɪn i ər |
Top 10 synonyms for linear Other synonyms for the word linear
- attenuated
- barred
- beeline
- brindled
- circumscribed
- close
- collinear
- compressed
- confining
- constricted
- continuous
- contracted
- determinate
- direct
- erect
- even
- exclusive
- exiguous
- fine
- fixed
- grooved
- horizontal
- in a line
- in a row
- in bee line
- in line
- in straight line
- incapacious
- inflexible
- invariable
- level
- like an arrow
- lineal
- linear
- lineate
- liny
- marked
- meager
- near
- not crooked
- paltry
- pent
- perpendicular
- pied
- pinched
- plumb
- point-blank
- precipitous
- rectilineal
- rectilinear
- ridged
- right
- running
- scant
- scanty
- select
- set
- sheer
- shortest
- shrunken
- small
- smooth
- solid
- spare
- square
- straight
- straight ahead
- straightaway
- straightforward
- strait
- streaky
- striate
- striated
- strigose
- striped
- successive
- taper
- tapered
- tapering
- thin
- threadlike
- through
- tight
- tore
- true
- unbent
- unbroken
- uncurled
- undeviating
- undistorted
- uninterrupted
- unrelieved
- unswerving
- upright
- variegated
- veined
- vertical
- whelked
- whelky
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for linear
- accepting
- away
- broad
- broad-minded
- broken
- changing
- corrupt
- curved
- deceitful
- deviating
- devious
- different
- diluted
- dishonest
- disordered
- disorderly
- disorganized
- far
- fat
- free
- generous
- giving
- imprecise
- incontinuous
- indefinite
- indirect
- inexact
- intermittent
- interrupted
- liberal
- loose
- mixed
- open
- poor
- prone
- spendthrift
- strong
- thick
- tolerant
- twisted
- unconfined
- unconventional
- uneven
- unfair
- unfixed
- unjust
- unlimited
- unrestricted
- untraditional
- untrustworthy
- varying
- wasting
- wide
- wily
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