curves

nounarched, rounded line or object
verbbending in a shape or course

Synonyms for curves

noun arched, rounded line or object

Antonyms for curves

line

Word Origin & History

1690s, "curved line," from curve (v.). With reference to the female figure (usually plural, curves), from 1862; as a type of baseball pitch, from 1879.

Example Sentences for curves

She's lost color, and her curves are more slender, but, my goodness!

From points near the circumference these circles or curves are very small.

The resulting curve, the circle, is therefore the least beautiful of all curves.

The moldboard was rough and the curves of no two were alike.

So we bore him off, all in coils and curves like a dead python, and deposited him upon his bed.

She loved the curves of her limbs, the play of her dimples, the shifting lights in her hair.

Anyways, I ain't losin' my eyesight, tryin' to follow his curves.

What's that amount to, if a fellow hasn't the curves at his command?

You've always had speed and curves, but now you seem able to get the pill over.

I didn't work in the hotel at Wolf River as long as I did, not to be onto your curves.