anhedral
adjective, noun
anhedral is an adjective meaning “Lacking sharp, recognisable crystal faces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-H-E-D-R-A-L, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anhedral mean?
adjective
- 1
Lacking sharp, recognisable crystal faces.
noun
- 1
the downward slope of an aircraft’s wing
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anhedral
- more anhedral comparative
- most anhedral superlative
- anhedrals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anhedral?
Anhedral appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anhedral in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense lacking sharp, recognisable crystal faces:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anedral |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anhedral come from?
From an- + -hedral.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).