anticlinal
adjective, noun
anticlinal is an adjective meaning “Inclining or dipping in opposite directions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-C-L-I-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anticlinal mean?
adjective
- 1
Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
- 2
Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
- 3
Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°.
- 4
Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.
noun
- 1
An anticlinal fold.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anticlinal?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-anticlinal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of anticlinal
- more anticlinal comparative
- most anticlinal superlative
- anticlinals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anticlinal?
Anticlinal appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).
Anticlinal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inclining or dipping in opposite directions:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anticlinal |
| Spanish | anticlinal |
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 anticlinal come from?
From anticline + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).