fluted

Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.

Adjective

  1. Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
    • The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete...
    • The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.” - 2018 February 28, Rene...

    Synonyms: grooved striated

  2. Drunk; intoxicated.

    Synonyms: Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked

Origin

Etymology tree English flute English -ed English fluted From flute + -ed.

Forms

more fluted most fluted

Derived

fluted giant clam nonfluted unfluted

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of flute