curl - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a strand or cluster of hair

Synonyms

• curl
• lock
• ringlet
• whorl

More generic

• hair

More specific

• crimp
• dreadlock
• forelock
• sausage curl

Related

• coif
• coiffure
• hair style
• hairdo
• hairstyle

Noun

American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

Synonyms

• Curl
• Robert Curl
• Robert F. Curl
• Robert Floyd Curl Jr.

Noun

a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

Synonyms

• coil
• curl
• curlicue
• gyre
• ringlet
• roll
• scroll
• whorl

More generic

• round shape

More specific

• calyx
• corolla
• verticil

Verb

form a curl, curve, or kink

Synonyms

• curl
• curve
• kink

More generic

• change surface

Related

• bend
• deform
• flex
• turn
• twist

Verb

play the Scottish game of curling

Synonyms

• curl

More generic

• play

Verb

twist or roll into coils or ringlets

Synonyms

• curl
• wave

More generic

• twist

More specific

• crape
• crimp
• frizz
• frizzle
• kink
• kink up

Verb

wind around something in coils or loops

Synonyms

• coil
• curl
• loop

More generic

• roll
• twine
• wind
• wrap

Verb

shape one's body into a curl

Synonyms

• curl
• curl up
• draw in

More generic

• bend
• flex

Related

• attract
• draw
• draw in
• pull
• pull in

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