sunken

sunken

adjective

Definition of SUNKEN

1

curved inward <our convalescing guest's sunken cheeks soon filled out on a diet of my mother's cooking>

Synonyms concave, dented, depressed, dished, indented, recessed, sunken

Related Words alveolar, cavernous, crescentic, cuplike, cupped, cuppy, recurved; dimpled, pockmarked; compressed, condensed, contracted, diminished, reduced

Near Antonyms ballooning, bloated, blown up, bulbous, distended, enlarged, expanded, extended, inflated, jutting, projecting, puffed, puffy, risen, swollen; domed, global, globular, round, rounded, spherical

Antonyms bulging, cambered, convex, protruding, protrusive, protuberant

2

living, lying, or occurring below the surface of the water <diving for sunken treasure>

Synonyms aquatic, submarine, submerged, sunken

Related Words oceanic; undersea; abysmal, abyssal, deep, deep-sea, deepwater