Synonyms for circular
ˈsɜr kyə lərcir·cu·lar

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1. circular

   Synonyms:
   round, spherical

   Antonyms:
   lineal, direct

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1. circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwawayadjective

   an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

   "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"

   Synonyms:
   bank bill, handbill, bank note, throwaway, tirade, measure, philippic, pecker, airman, posting, greenback, neb, peak, banknote, invoice, eyeshade, vizor, beak, broadsheet, flier, broadside, street arab, bill, banker's bill, government note, card, aeronaut, aviator, notice, gamin, visor, poster, billhook, placard, flyer, account, nib, note

   Antonyms:
   noncyclic, noncyclical

2. round, circularadjective

   having a circular shape

   Synonyms:
   round, rotary, orotund, pear-shaped, orbitual, rotund

   Antonyms:
   noncyclic, noncyclical

3. circular, rotary, orbitualadjective

   describing a circle; moving in a circle

   "the circular motion of the wheel"

   Synonyms:
   round, rotary, orbitual

   Antonyms:
   noncyclical, noncyclic

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1. circularadjective

   Synonyms:
   round, annular, ring-shaped

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1. List of paraphrases for "circular":

   circulars, bulletin, pie, circulaire, circulate, move, notice, bulletins, circumferential, flyers, handbills, flyer

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1. Joshua Nowlan:

   I assumed it had to be the shooter, from his stance ... He was walking around, and I can see him pointing the gun in a circular motion that looked like he was searching for more people ... I was terribly scared, my thought process was that he was searching for other people and that he was going to start going row by row, and that anybody he would see in that row who was still moving, he would shoot.

2. St. Augustine:

   Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

3. Paul Chodas:

   I suspect this newly discovered object 2020 SO to be an old rocket booster because it is following an orbit about the Sun that is extremely similar to Earth's, nearly circular, in the same plane, and only slightly farther away the Sun at its farthest point, that's precisely the kind of orbit that a rocket stage separated from a lunar mission would follow, once it passes by the Moon and escapes into orbit about the Sun. It's unlikely that an asteroid could have evolved into an orbit like this, but not impossible.

4. Michelle Obama:

   One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say,' Uh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be,' and then we start sometimes creating what's called a' circular firing squad,' where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues.

5. Robin Green:

   Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.