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Definition: Cuspidate |
CuspidateAdjective1. Having cusps or points. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CuspidateSynonyms: cuspate (adj), cuspated (adj), cusped (adj), cuspidal (adj), cuspidated (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cuspidate |
| Etymologies containing "cuspidate": Multicuspidate. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "cuspidate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cuspidatus (cuspidal), tilspidset (conicity, cuspidal, taper), spids (peak, point, pointed, spiked, summit, tip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cuspidatus (cuspidal), getand (dental). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | منتهی به نوک تیز, نوک دار (Headed, Picked, Sharp), شاخدار (Cornuted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cuspidé (cuspidal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | cuspidatus (cuspidal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μυτερόσ (cuspidal, cuspidated, peaked, piked, pronged, spicate, spiculate, spiky), οξύσ (acid, acute, crucial, cuspidal, cuspidated, keen, pang, penetrating, piercing, piked, piping, pointed, pungent, screechy, sharp, shrill, smart, trenchant, twang), ο έχων οδοντικό φύμα ή γλωχίνα (cuspidal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cuspidato (cuspidal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cuspagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uspidatecay cuspidado (cuspidal). (various references) остроконечный (acuminate, cuspidal, gabled, peaked, peaky, picked, pointy, ridged, ridgy, spiky, spiniform). (various references) cuspidado (cuspidal), con fines de cúspide. (various references) sivri uçlu (cusped, cuspidal, pointed, spicular, spiky), dilimli (segmented, sliced). (various references) шпилястий (apiculate, arrowy, beaked, piked, sharp pointed, spired), гострокінцевий (acuminate, cuspidal, peaked, peaky, piked, ridged, ridgy, spiny, spiral, spired), загострений (acuminate, arrow-headed, ogival, piled, pointed, spiky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Cuspidate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: copydate, cuspidatus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cuspated, spicated. | |
-2 letters: aseptic, auspice, cuspate, dauties, depicts, discept, dispute, spicate, teacups, updates. | |
-3 letters: acutes, adepts, adieus, apices, aspect, audits, cadets, capsid, catsup, caused, cuesta, cupids, cusped, cuspid, cuties, dautie, depict, dicast, ducats, duties, edicts, educts, epacts, pasted, pastie, paused, petsai, pietas, sauced, sauted, scaped, septic, spaced, spicae, spiced, spited, stiped, stupid, suited. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: duplicates. | |
+2 letters: pediculates, supplicated. | |
+3 letters: reduplicates. | |
+4 letters: propaedeutics, sextuplicated. | |
+5 letters: conceptualised, particularised, quadruplicates, reduplications, unpredictables. | |
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