streamlined

Designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines.

Adjective

  1. Designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines.

    Synonyms: air-smoothed

  2. Having been made more simple and straight forward.
    • Commercial pilots would benefit from streamlined rules on flight time, duty and rest requirements in a proposal being announced Friday by federal regulators. - 2010 September 10, Paul Courson, “New rules proposed for...
    • He boasted about how quickly the company had brought the 737 Max to market — and praised the Federal Aviation Administration’s “streamlined” certification process. - 2019 April 3, Chris Isidore, “Boeing boasted about...

Origin

Etymology tree English streamline English -ed English streamlined From streamline + -ed.

Forms

more streamlined most streamlined

Derived

nonstreamlined non-streamlined semi-streamlined superstreamlined unstreamlined

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of streamline