All tapered synonyms
ta·per
T t noun tapered
adjective tapered
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- lessened — to become less.
- conoidal — Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
- narrowing — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- attenuated — An attenuated object is unusually long and thin.
- needlelike — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- decreased — Simple past tense and past participle of decrease.
- knifelike — Resembling a knife or its effects.
adj tapered
- conic — having the shape of a cone
- acuate — to sharpen
- conical — A conical object is shaped like a cone.
- conoid — a geometric surface formed by rotating a parabola, ellipse, or hyperbola about one axis
- coned — Geometry. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- horned — made of horn.
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- graduated — of, relating to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree: graduate courses in business; a graduate student.
- linear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- calibrated — marked with units
- knife-edged — having a thin, sharp edge.
- lancinating — to stab or pierce.
verb tapered
- minified — Simple past tense and past participle of minify.
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.