Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Convexity

Nouns
  • convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion
  • camber, cahot [U.S.]. thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.]. swell. intumescence
  • tumour [Brit.], tumor
  • tubercle, tuberosity [Anat.]
  • excrescence
  • hump, hunch, bunch. boss, embossment, hub, hubble
  • [convex body parts] tooth [U.S.], knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump
  • sugar loaf etc. (sharpness) Sharpness
  • bow
  • mamelon
  • molar
  • belly, corporation, pot belly, gut [Coll.]
  • withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange. [convexities on skin] pimple, zit [Slang]
  • wen, wheel, papula [Med.], pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain
  • boil etc. (disease) Disease
  • airbubble, blob, papule, verruca. [convex body parts on chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [Vulg.], titty [Vulg.], boob [Vulg.], knocker [Vulg.], pap, breast, dug, mammilla. [prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz [Coll.]. peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag. cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves
  • pilaster. relief, cameo
  • bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo
  • low relief, high relief. hill etc. (height) Height
  • cape, promontory, mull
  • forehead, foreland
  • point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur
  • naze, ness.
Verbs
  • be prominent etc. adj.
  • project, bulge, protrude, pout, bunch
  • jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out
  • stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up
  • swell over, hang over, bend over
  • beetle. render prominent etc. adj.
  • raise Elevation
  • emboss, chase. [become convex] belly out.
Adjectives
  • convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting etc. v.
  • bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy
  • clavate, clavated, claviform
  • hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform
  • papulous, papilose
  • hemispheric, bulbous
  • bowed, arched
  • bold
  • bellied
  • tuberous, tuberculous
  • tumous
  • cornute, odontoid
  • lentiform, lenticular
  • gibbous
  • club shaped, hubby [U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose. salient, in relief, raised, repousse
  • bloated etc., (expanded) Expansion.