Surfaces and Textures Flashcards
made flat, flattened
applanate, planiform, complanate
flat or without varying elevation
plane, level, planate, tabular, tabulate
bent or twisted out of its plane
warped, buckled
smooth and free of roughness
even, uniform, glabrous, levigate
smooth and shiny
lustrous, glossy, polished, burnished, buffed, glazed, varnished, shellacked, shellacked, lacquered, gleaming, glistening, glassy, suave
like glass
glassy, glazed, glazy, vitreous, vitriform, hyaline
not shiny
lusterless, dull, matte
having an uneven surface
irregular, bumpy, humpy, hummocky, lumpy
rough
coarse, prickly, scabrous, abrasive, scratchy, choppy, ragged, jagged, sandpapery, raspy
rough with prominent irregularities
scraggly, scraggy
having wrinkles
wrinkled, corrugated, rugose, crinkly, crinkled, crispate
having a grain like consistency
grainy, granular, gritty, coarse grained, rough grained, granulated, branny
having a sand like consistency
sandy, sabulous, tophaceous, arenaceous, arenarious
having a pushed up surface
raised, embossed, relief, in relief
having rounded protuberances
knobbed
having small rounded protuberances
pimpled
having hard ornamental protuberances
studded
having raised (relief) patterns made by hammering the other side
repousse
having a cut into surface
incised, engraved, tooled
having small pits or indentations
chased
sharp
acute, cutting, keen-edged, keen, knife edged, knife-like, razor-edge, razor like cultrate
having or coming to a point
pointed, acute, acuminate, mucronate, acuate
having sharp projections
thorny, prickly, barbed, spiny, echinated
not sharp
dull, blunt, obtund, obtuse
cut along the edge
nicked, notched, hacked
having a sliced opening and openings
slit, cut, slashed, incised, gashed, scissored
having scratches
scratches, scored, abraded, scuffed, scraped, scarred
solid
substantial, dense, concrete, material, palpable, intact
hard
firm, unyielding, inflexible, rock hard, stone-like, flinty, adamantine, indurate, steely
hardened
toughened, indurate
marble like
marmoreal
granite-like
granitic
cement like
cementitious
diamond-like
adamantine
stiff
rigid, starchy, inelastic, inflexible, inextensible
tight
taut