Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.

synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic.

Roget 249: rotund; round etc. (circular) 247; cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid^†; columnar, lumbriciform^†; conic, conical; spherical, spheroidal; globular, globated^†, globous^†, globose; egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform^†; campaniform^†, campanulate^†, campaniliform^†; fungiform^†, bead-like, moniliform^†, pyriform^†, bulbous; tres atque rotundus [Lat.]; round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.    ... show more

Roget 250: convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting etc. v.; bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated^†, claviform; hummocky^†, moutonne^†, mammiliform^†; papulous^†, papilose^†; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous^†; cornute^†, odontoid^†; lentiform^†, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby [U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform^†, subclavate^†, torose^†, ventricose^†, verrucose^†.    salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated &c., (expanded) 194.    ... show more

Polish: garbaty

used of the moon More than half full.

synonym: gibbose.