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Curved vs Curly - What's the difference?

curved | curly |

As adjectives the difference between curved and curly

is that curved is having a curve or curves while curly is having curls.

As a verb curved

is (curve).

As a noun curly is

a person or animal with curly hair.

curved

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a curve or curves.

    • Antonyms

    * straight

    Synonyms

    * (having a curve) ** (for two-dimensional shapes) bent, hooked ** (for three-dimensional shapes) rounded * (having curves) curvy, sinuous, tortuous, wavy

    Verb

    (head)
  • (curve)

    • curly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having curls.

    • Derived terms

    * curly top

    Noun

    (curlies)
  • a person or animal with curly hair.

    • See also

    * short and curlies