curl
A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
Example
“My hair doesn't have much curl.”
Other meanings
A curved stroke or shape.
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
Synonyms
- coil
- whorl
- roll
- scroll
Related words
- bluecurls
- becurl
- curlless
- curlpaper
- curlsome
- lipcurl
- querl
- upcurl
- curls for the girls
- cheat curl
- blue curls
- Utah curls
Word history
From Middle Dutch "crul".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “curl” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.