Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

involute

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.81 in modern English

Syllables: in-vo-lute
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Difficult to understand; complicated.

Formal

adj

Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.

adj

Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.

adj

Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.

adj

Rolled inward spirally.

verb

To roll or curl inwards.

noun

A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.

Example Sentences

"These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life."
"Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

Usage

Formal

Inflected Forms

more involute (comparative) most involute (superlative) involuted (alternative) involutes (present, singular) involuting (participle, present) involuted (participle, past) involuted (past) involutes (plural)

Derived Forms

involutely

Frequently Paired Words

involution advolute convolute evolute revolute

Synonyms

evolvent rolled

Questions

What does involute mean?: Difficult to understand; complicated.
Where does involute come from?: Borrowed from Latin involutus.

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