curly
/ˈkɜːli/adjective
उच्चारण कर्ली
घुँघराले
Core word
- 1
having a lot of curls
घुँघराले
- curly hair
- The baby has soft curly hair that her grandmother loves.
- She has long curly hair that she ties back for school.
+ 2 more examples
- The shop sells curly fries and chicken wings.
- Curly leaves of spinach grew along the garden wall.
Synonyms wavy curled frizzy ringletted
Opposite straight
§Structures (grammar patterns) 5
curly hair / curly tail (adjective + noun)
Curly describes hair, tails or anything with curls, and comes before the noun.
'Curly' बालों, पूँछ या किसी भी घुँघराली चीज़ का वर्णन करता है और noun से पहले आता है।
- Radhika has long curly hair.
- The puppy wagged its curly tail.
comparative: curlier / the curliest
Curly forms its comparative with -ier and superlative with -iest, because the final y changes to i.
'Curly' का comparative -ier और superlative -iest से बनता है, क्योंकि अंतिम y, i में बदल जाता है।
- Her hair is curlier than her sister's.
- He has the curliest hair in class.
curly brackets (technical use)
Curly brackets, also called braces, are the signs { } used in mathematics and computer code.
Curly brackets, जिन्हें braces भी कहते हैं, गणित और कंप्यूटर कोड में प्रयुक्त चिह्न { } हैं।
- Write the elements of the set inside curly brackets.
curly vs curled / wavy
Curly means naturally full of curls; curled means made into a curl, and wavy has gentle waves rather than tight curls.
'Curly' का अर्थ स्वभाव से घुँघराले; 'curled' बनाए गए घुँघराले; और 'wavy' का अर्थ कसे छल्लों की जगह हल्की लहरें है।
- Her hair is wavy, but his is tightly curly.
curly-haired / curly-headed (compound adjective)
Curly can join with a noun to form a compound adjective, with a hyphen before the noun it describes.
'Curly' किसी noun से जुड़कर compound adjective बना सकता है, जिसमें वर्णित noun से पहले hyphen लगता है।
- The curly-haired girl sat in the first row.
+Collocations 5
curly + noun
hairtailbracketslettucefries
- The curly fries were served hot with ketchup.
adverb + curly
naturallytightlyveryslightlybeautifully
- She was born with naturally curly hair.
verb + curly
gobecomelookkeepmake
- Her hair goes curly in the humid weather.
curly + with a person
curly-haired boycurly-headed childcurly-tailed dog
- The curly-haired boy won the singing competition.
curly + food
curly friescurly kalecurly parsleycurly noodles
- We ordered curly fries at the cafe.
“More examples 6
- Her curly hair gets tangled in the monsoon.
मानसून में उसके घुँघराले बाल उलझ जाते हैं।
- The shopkeeper sold curly noodles at the fair.
दुकानदार ने मेले में घुँघराली नूडल्स बेचीं।
- He has a curly moustache that he twists proudly.
उसकी घुँघराली मूँछें हैं जिन्हें वह गर्व से ऐंठता है।
- In programming, curly brackets enclose a block of code.
Programming में curly brackets कोड के एक ब्लॉक को घेरते हैं।
- The baby's curly hair shone in the evening sun.
शिशु के घुँघराले बाल शाम की धूप में चमक रहे थे।
- The curly vines climbed the wall of the old house.
घुँघराली बेलें पुराने घर की दीवार पर चढ़ गईं।
!Common mistakes 2
✗ Her hair is more curly than mine.
✓ Her hair is curlier than mine.
A two-syllable adjective ending in -y takes -ier for its comparative.
-y पर समाप्त होने वाला दो अक्षरों का adjective comparative में -ier लेता है।
✗ She has a curly long hair.
✓ She has long curly hair.
Hair is uncountable, so a is wrong, and size (long) comes before the kind (curly).
'Hair' uncountable है, इसलिए a गलत है, और आकार (long) प्रकार (curly) से पहले आता है।