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gonal

gonal

1 9.4
Used in words to say a shape has a certain number of sides or angles
  • adjective
  • Specialized
: gonal
  • The artist preferred gonal designs over circular ones for his modern sculptures.

Examples

  • In geometry, a decagonal figure has ten sides and ten angles.

  • A gonal shape has multiple sides.

  • A hexagonal tile is a six-gonal shape commonly used in bathroom floors.

  • The architect designed a gonal building.

  • A hexagon is a six-sided shape, which means it is a 6-gonal figure.

  • In geometry class, we learned that an octagon is an 8-gonal shape.

  • The architect designed a unique building with a 10-gonal base.

Synonyms

sided
vsgonal
100 3.4

Having a particular number of flat surfaces

is used mainly as a compound suffix to name shapes by number of angles
polygonal
vsgonal
  • Specialized
1 6.1

A shape that has straight flat sides like a triangle or square

refers to shapes with a specified side count rather than generally many sides

Surface Forms

gonal positive

Morphology

gonal = gon + al

Built from the bound combining form 'gon' (angle) + the adjectival suffix '-al'; because 'gon' is not a standalone English word and is mainly technical, many learners will need knowledge of related words (e.g., polygon, hexagon) to infer the meaning.

Etymology

Gonal comes from an old Greek root gon meaning 'angle'. You can see the same root in hexagon and polygon, so gonal in a word tells you it has a certain number of 'angles' or 'sides', which is why a hexagonal tile has six sides.