oblate

oblate is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
2. adjective. Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
3. adjective. One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
4. adjective. One of the Oblati.
5. noun. a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
6. adjective. having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in oblate:

boatel, lobate

Common word forms

oblated, oblates, oblately, oblating, oblateness

Words from these letters

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