Definition for Spiral:

• Winding, like a screw ; leaves alternately placed; flower with spirally inserted parts.

Synonyms for Spiral:

• adj.

  •crooked (adjective)
  • Tortile,
  • meandering.
  •curling, winding (adjective)
  • cochlear,
  • rolled,
  • coiled,
  • circling,
  • voluted,
  • curled,
  • Helicoid,
  • circumvoluted,
  • whorled,
  • helical,
  • circular,
  • wound,
  • screw-shaped,
  • tendrillar.

• n.

  •
  • fall,
  • dwindle,
  • diminish,
  • slump,
  • shrink,
  • drop,
  • crater,
  • decline,
  • decrease.
  •
  • crisis,
  • trouble,
  • quagmire,
  • stress,
  • ordeal,
  • battle,
  • tragedy,
  • nightmare.
  •
  • bulge,
  • bubble,
  • ball,
  • bowl,
  • band,
  • balloon,
  • cone.
  •curled shape (noun)
  • gyration,
  • whorl,
  • gyre,
  • volute,
  • quirk.
  •curve (noun)
  • meniscus,
  • horseshoe,
  • crook,
  • sinus,
  • parabola,
  • curvature,
  • arch,
  • bow,
  • crescent.
  •flight maneuver (noun)
  • barrel roll.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • regress.
  •
  • entwine.
  •
  • fester,
  • rot,
  • meander,
  • snake.
  •
  • decay,
  • weave,
  • suffer.
  •
  • deepen.
  •
  • go.
  •bend
  • loop,
  • spiralling,
  • refract,
  • spiraling,
  • rounding.
  •curl
  • scallop,
  • ringlet.
  •glide
  • glissade.
  •Other relevant words:
  • deviation,
  • screwlike,
  • circumnavigation,
  • excursion,
  • snail,
  • diving,
  • catenary,
  • trail,
  • garland,
  • power dive,
  • rise up,
  • skew,
  • arched,
  • falciform,
  • lock,
  • kink,
  • tower,
  • spirals,
  • paraboloid,
  • go round,
  • porpoise,
  • deviousness,
  • galactic circle,
  • stunting,
  • crookedly,
  • ambagious,
  • arise,
  • bore into,
  • go about,
  • dive,
  • bay window,
  • crown,
  • ring,
  • stagger,
  • indirect,
  • mount,
  • Curviform,
  • bank,
  • Circumambulation,
  • handbuild,
  • reel,
  • circumambulate,
  • festoon,
  • cirrus,
  • narrate,
  • Circumambiency,
  • poise,
  • flexuous,
  • become airborne,
  • Circuition,
  • crank,
  • tell,
  • yaw,
  • circumlocution,
  • pull-up,
  • flake,
  • turbinate,
  • girdle,
  • crab,
  • circularity,
  • rotary,
  • undulate,
  • lentiform,
  • barred spiral galaxy,
  • Turbinated,
  • zigzag,
  • recurved,
  • fake,
  • caustic,
  • spirally,
  • upwind,
  • cyclic,
  • bar,
  • fly,
  • sinusoid,
  • curved,
  • excursus,
  • zoom,
  • hyperbola,
  • dog-leg,
  • arcade,
  • digression,
  • rundle,
  • circuitry,
  • recite,
  • galaxy,
  • hover,
  • conch,
  • circuit,
  • Roundaboutness,
  • wheeling,
  • parabolic,
  • hang,
  • acrobatics,
  • Hovered,
  • strengthen,
  • roundly,
  • verticillate,
  • tracery,
  • upstream,
  • plane,
  • dental drill,
  • compass,
  • recount,
  • Escalop,
  • scollop,
  • decorate,
  • reniform,
  • roundabout,
  • encompass,
  • Falcated,
  • intertwine,
  • half-moon,
  • pushdown,
  • pull out,
  • hovers,
  • arc,
  • Volplane,
  • Recurvous,
  • kidney-shaped,
  • orbit,
  • coiling,
  • cordiform,
  • mechanism,
  • galactic coordinates,
  • cloud,
  • aerobatics,
  • deviative,
  • hooked,
  • turbinal,
  • Hovering,
  • circumvent,
  • uprise,
  • Evolute,
  • feather,
  • curvilinear,
  • indirection,
  • list,
  • hand-build,
  • wheel,
  • float,
  • semicircular,
  • looped,
  • banking,
  • scroll,
  • genus helix,
  • worm,
  • cardioid,
  • Crabbing,
  • Upswarm,
  • Conchoid,
  • wrap,
  • go up,
  • bow-legged,
  • kite,
  • plow,
  • levitate,
  • backhanded,
  • circuitousness,
  • push down,
  • spire,
  • stall,
  • lunule,
  • spheric,
  • Luniform,
  • digressive,
  • ammonite,
  • radially,
  • oblique,
  • Circumflexion,
  • curvilineal,
  • rolling,
  • shoot up,
  • enwrap,
  • Upgrow,
  • bow window,
  • braid,
  • deviance,
  • verticillated,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • involute,
  • vault,
  • sweep up,
  • discursive,
  • circulation,
  • twirl,
  • spiroid,
  • Circuiteer,
  • Lunular,
  • circularly,
  • encircle,
  • come up,
  • upsurge,
  • devious,
  • skirt,
  • carve,
  • interweave,
  • circumnavigate,
  • helically,
  • volution,
  • upheave,
  • distort,
  • skid,
  • fishtail,
  • spiral nebula,
  • brace and bit,
  • swirl,
  • surge,
  • Deviating,
  • Cordated,
  • orbiting,
  • excursive,
  • anfractuous,
  • centrifugally,
  • surround,
  • vaulted,
  • ascend,
  • Crescentic,
  • stunt,
  • swing,
  • maneuver,
  • kinky,
  • Snakestone,
  • crimp,
  • semilunar,
  • pullout,
  • fishtailing,
  • lenticular,
  • deviancy,
  • Hell,
  • Spiry,
  • orbital,
  • sideslip,
  • circulate,
  • bowed,
  • angle,
  • cycle,
  • lap,
  • whirl,
  • chandelle,
  • island universe,
  • Conchoidal,
  • Pivoting,
  • distorted,
  • grow up,
  • loom,
  • crump,
  • Devex,
  • serpentine,
  • soar,
  • drapery,
  • roll up,
  • rear,
  • Cochleate,
  • furl,
  • winding,
  • buckle,
  • rise,
  • aspire,
  • convolution,
  • Hoveringly,
  • flank,
  • rotate,
  • repetition,
  • twisted,
  • turning,
  • take off,
  • circuitous,
  • spin around.

Paraphrases for Spiral:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    spiralling.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    whirlpool, vortex, screw, intensification, trap.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    escalation, maelstrom, escalating, swirl, circle, cycle, upsurge.

Antonyms for Spiral:

• adj.

  • curling, winding
    straight, uncurling, unwinding.
  • Other antonyms:
    lineal, right, linear, uncoiled.

Homophones for Spiral:

• several, sobralia, severally, say farewell, spherule, severely, sprawl, spur wheel, spirilla, soberly, schiaparelli, spirula, sky burial, sprawly.

Hypernym for Spiral:

• n.

  • process
    deflationary spiral, inflationary spiral.

Hyponym for Spiral:

• n.

  • act
    rotary motion, rotation.
  • process
    economic process.
  • shape
    curved shape, curve.

• v.

  • stative
    curve, wind, twist.