Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
astylar

astylar

9.9
A building without columns or pillars
  • adjective
  • /ˈæstɪlɚ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : astylar
  • The new museum building features an astylar façade that emphasizes clean lines and simplicity.

Examples

  • Unlike the grand civic structures, this chapel is distinctly astylar in its design.

  • Certain modernists preferred astylar buildings, rejecting classical columns in favor of minimalism.

  • This building is astylar.

  • The new museum design is completely astylar.

  • Certain modernists preferred astylar buildings, rejecting classical columns in favor of minimalism.

  • The new museum building features an astylar façade that emphasizes clean lines and simplicity.

  • Unlike the grand civic structures, this chapel is distinctly astylar in its design.

Synonyms

uncolumned
vsastylar
9.6

A space with no columns to support the roof

is about lacking columns or pillars in a building
unpillared
vsastylar
8.3

An open space without columns that hold up the roof

is about lacking either columns or pillars in a structure

Antonyms

columned
1 4.6

Having tall pillars, often at the front of a building

pillared
5.3

Having tall straight posts that support or decorate a building

Surface Forms

astylar positive

Morphology

astylar = stylar (opaque) = a + styl + ar

Although the word is analyzable as the privative 'a-' + 'stylar', both elements are rare/specialized, so an average B1 learner would not infer 'lacking columns' from them.

Etymology

The word astylar comes from the Greek parts a- 'without' and stylos 'pillar'. So, astylar describes a building 'without pillars' and means having no columns.