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tapered
adjective as in conical
Strongest match
Strong match
adjective as in conical/conic
adjective as in graduated
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in knifelike
Weak matches
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
adjective as in lancinating
Weak matches
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
adjective as in narrow
Strong matches
Strongest matches
adjective as in stabbing
Strong matches
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Example Sentences
It includes a taper level for fading and blending as well as zero-overlap.
In sports, this is why so many tapers end with a few short, intense efforts.
The lightly caffeinated beverage tapered my appetite while ensuring I had some nutrition.
My work with students tapered off dramatically in 2010, after I had my first child.
Emigration, which hit epic levels in the 1980s and 1990s, seems to have tapered off.
The former OC star, 26, was channelling Hollywood chic in a tapered tuxedo and bright orange lipstick.
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Maya Rudolph put their best tapered-pant-leg forward in this mock ad for the infamous pants.
Holaf still remained by my side, and his hand did not leave the oddly-carved butt of the tapered tube-gun.
The wood was sharpened like a lead pencil at one end, and a groove was cut out of the tapered part to hold the ink.
Provide a machine screw, S, for the hole C and drill a small tapered hole in the end of the screw.
The end of the pipe is tapered still more by rasping off the end.
If the branch is tapered with the rasp as shown the joint can be made very tight.
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On this page you'll find 306 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tapered, such as: cone-shaped, conical/conic, coned, conoid, conoidal, and funnel-shaped.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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