What does elliptical mean?
Elliptical means In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval..
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/ɪˈlɪp.tɪk.əl/ · adjective
In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval..
Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.
If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us.
Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.
He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.
Use elliptical when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Elliptical means In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval..
Common synonyms include elliptic, concise, prolate, ovate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.
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