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textural

textural

4 5.9
The feel of something when you touch or look at it
  • adjective
  • /ˈtɛkstʃərəl/
: textural
  • The artist emphasized the textural quality of the clay in her pottery designs.

Oh my God, it's a textural explosion in your mouth.

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Examples

  • They're more dense, more thick, and there's more of a almost striated nature to them where you can actually feel the textural change in the leaf.

  • And the beauty of the garment comes in the surface design, whether it's textural or pattern.

  • So it is this incredibly textural stone.

  • I mean, the the textural differences here are so beautiful.

  • Oh my God, it's a textural explosion in your mouth.

    Adam Conover

  • So I'm at least glad that we had textural diversity.

    Robinson Erhardt

  • Unfortunately, my iPhone's camera could not focus on fine textural details.

    Academic text (2014)

  • With no contrast, the scallops just become a textural difference, not a design focus.

    Blog text (24)

  • You want something fluffy, airy, rippled with a nice textural note where you taste the egg.

  • Sometimes, asking about textural sensations rather than metaphorical flavors can be revealing.

    Blog text (33)

Synonyms

grainy
vstextural
24 3.7

Rough in feel or look because of many tiny pieces

focuses on structure and arrangement more than rough particle texture
tactile
vstextural
21 5.1

Relating to the sense of touch

includes both touch and sight perception rather than touch only
grained
vstextural
6 3.6

A surface that has visible lines and a pattern, like wood or fabric

emphasizes overall arrangement and feel rather than only visible patterns

Antonyms

smooth
224 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

How Textured

rugged
33 3.7
coarse
29 3.7
textural
4 5.9
soft
557 1.0
smooth
224 1.0

Surface Forms

textural positive

Morphology

textural = texture (transparent) = texture + al

This is a regular adjective formed from 'texture' + '-al', and the meaning is directly related to texture.

Etymology

Textural comes from the Latin root texere, which means 'to weave', and is the same root in texture and textile. Think of threads woven to make a surface you can feel, so textural describes the structure or 'feel' of a material or surface.