rectangular

adjective

Definition of rectangularnext
1
as in oblong

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as in cubic

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Recent Examples of rectangular The 53-year-old star—who also shares daughter Violet, 20, and son Samuel, 14, with Garner—added a pair of light-wash jeans, white sneakers, and black rectangular sunglasses. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 29 June 2026 Outdoors, a large rectangular swimming pool bordered by red bricks and a flagstone terrace anchors a sprawling backyard filled with flat lawns and towering trees, and topping it all off is a separate guesthouse, plus a basketball court next to an attached three-car garage. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 26 June 2026 Anker Soundcore Boom 2 Deal While there are plenty of outdoor speaker options, the Anker Boom 2 offers a nice throwback aesthetic with a boombox handle and rectangular design. — Carlos Mejia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026 Many of the injuries displayed rectangular, band-like and patterned characteristics consistent with impact from a belt-like object, Detective Balders wrote. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for rectangular
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectangular
  1. oblong
  2. cubic
  3. boxy
  4. blocky
  5. cubical
  6. square
  7. cuboid
Adjective
  • Many varieties of yellow watermelon are smaller and rounder than red watermelons, although some produce the classic large, oblong fruit.
    — Christine Fiorentino, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2026
  • The French capital is in the midst of a heat wave — the day of the show was the city’s hottest ever June day, until Wednesday eclipsed it — and the model’s toes steamed inside the oblong footwear.
    — Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
Definition of oblong
Adjective
  • Compare that to a Caltech air monitor in Pasadena, which recorded about 650 micrograms per cubic meter during last year’s Eaton fire.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • The seafloor dropped about four meters (13 feet), the plates pulled apart by more than one meter (three feet), and up to 160 million cubic meters of lava—the volume of more than 60 Great Pyramids of Giza—erupted onto the seabed.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 8 July 2026
Definition of cubic
Adjective
  • SpaceX shunned the conventional boxy satellite designs pretty much everyone else has used for more than a half-century.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
  • Designed by Cossutti & Ganz, the exterior eschews that typically boxy catamaran silhouette in favor of a slightly more curvy profile.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 July 2026
Definition of boxy
Adjective
  • Much like disposable cameras, instant cameras, retro digicams, and Yashica’s own blocky digital shooter, the Tank, these limitations are what gives it the washed-out, nostalgic charm that pristine smartphone sensors work so hard to edit out.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 June 2026
  • The image above shows the current user interface in the center, with the old, blocky style on the left and the airy, line-drawing style on the right.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
Definition of blocky
Adjective
  • Even the workpiece itself was cubical.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2025
Definition of cubical
Adjective
  • The company was adding 18,000 square feet to 15 upper floors of the building, and the additional load caused two columns to bend, sagging the floors – some as much as 4 inches, Nathan Berman, founder and managing principal of MetroLoft, told CNN.
    — Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • Last year the city approved Hackman Capital’s $1-billion plan to add 980,000 square feet of offices, sound stages, production facilities and retail space.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of square
Adjective
  • The hefty hardback, which weighs nearly eight pounds, comprises 222 pages and more than 125 illustrations dedicated to LV’s iconic cuboid creations.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2022
  • Jones tottered through the wetlands in hip waders, holding high a cuboid plastic container tall enough to enclose the towering tule plants.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2021
Definition of cuboid

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