sunken | Definition of sunken

Synonyms and Antonyms of sunken

1 curved inward

our convalescing guest's sunken cheeks soon filled out on a diet of my mother's cooking

Synonyms of sunken

concave, dented, depressed, dished, hollow, indented, recessed

Words Related to sunken

alveolar, cavernous, crescentic, cuplike, cupped, cuppy, recurved

dimpled, pockmarked

compressed, condensed, contracted, diminished, reduced

Near Antonyms of sunken

ballooning, bloated, blown up, bulbous, distended, enlarged, expanded, extended, inflated, jutting, projecting, puffed, puffy, risen, swollen

domed, global, globular, round, rounded, spherical

Antonyms of sunken

bulging, cambered, convex, protruding, protrusive, protuberant

2 living, lying, or occurring below the surface of the water

diving for sunken treasure

Synonyms of sunken

aquatic, submarine, submerged, underwater

Words Related to sunken

abysmal, abyssal, deep, deep-sea, deepwater