Lineament

Quick meaning: Lineament is a noun meaning Any distinctive shape or line, etc.

Meaning

Any distinctive shape or line, etc.

More Meanings

1. A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of a person’s face.

Example Sentences

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.

VVho is this vve muſt learn, for man he ſeems / In all his lineaments, though in his face / The glimpſes of his Fathers glory ſhine.

But she could not wipe out the king's majesty with that sponge nor alter one lineament of the portrait she had taken ten years to limn.

[…] a mask of iron on his face hid the lineaments / Of ancient Kings, and the frown of the eternal lion was hid from the oppressed earth.

Word Forms

• lineaments

Synonyms for lineament

Depending on context, synonyms include character, quality, feature.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include feature, character, quality, trending, conversable, line.

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