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tapered

tapered

1 4.5
Becoming narrower toward one end like a pencil or table leg
  • adjective
  • /ˈteɪpərd/
translation icon : con forma cónica
  • It's slightly tapered, so it kind of comes to a point and it's very small and thin.

But one side is tapered to a very fine point.

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Examples

  • The candle is tapered at the bottom, allowing it to fit perfectly into the holder.

  • I do like that it has the pointed tapered tip, so you can get right into those front lashes.

  • But one side is tapered to a very fine point.

    Lauren Curtis

  • It's also good for getting a nice tapered edge as well.

  • So this is a style that I have yet to pick up and it has a tapered sort of leg on it.

    Sarah Rae Vargas

  • This one is slightly tapered and it has like a more skinny shape.

    KathleenLights

  • Perfectly tapered around the waist pockets.

  • This is our large tapered blender brush and we're just going to go back and forth with this one.

  • Going to pick that up with this Sigma tapered brush and just swipe it on.

  • Here I'm using a tapered plug cutter from Rockler to filling the holes using the same wood.

Synonyms

narrowing
vstapered
4.9

Gradually getting narrower toward one end

describes the finished form as thinner along its length rather than the process
tapering
vstapered
4.7

Becoming gradually narrower toward one end

refers specifically to becoming thinner in shape along the length rather than amount

How Narrow

needlelike
1 4.9
tapered
1 4.5
narrow
290 1.0
broad
224 1.0

Surface Forms

tapered positive

Morphology

tapered = taper (transparent) = taper + ed

Formed by regular suffixation of -ed to the verb 'taper', so a learner who knows 'taper' can infer 'tapered'.

Etymology

The word tapered comes from the verb taper, which once meant 'to become thin', like a candle or a pencil that gets narrower toward the tip. So something tapered is narrower at one end and wider at the other.