three-dimensional
/ˌθriːdɪˈmɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)l
/ /ˌθriːdʌɪˈmɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)l /adjective
1Having or appearing to have length, breadth, and depth: a three-dimensional object...
- Those topographic features scatter ambient light in such a way that a three-dimensional image appears.
- The fibrils appear to be three-dimensional and interlocking and to consist of fibrillar bundles.
- As I sat on a bench in the huge courtyard, admiring the myriads of rose gardens, a three-dimensional vision suddenly appeared.
Synonyms
solid, concrete, having depth, sculptural, rounded;
stereoscopic, stereographic, stereo-, virtual, holographic, perspective, pop-up
technical axonometric, orthorhombic
1.1(Of a literary or dramatic work) sufficiently full in characterization and representation of events to be believable: the drama is never anything less than three-dimensional...
- This helped make the characters three-dimensional for me a lot of times.
- With the my latest film, I decided to change all that by making the characters more three-dimensional.
- Some of the overt sexuality helped to show these women as complete, three-dimensional characters.
Derivatives
three-dimensionality
- These dramas assume that their characters, although often wrong-headed and representative of flawed systems, have dignity and three-dimensionality.
- The etchings are details of digitally recorded images - fragments of texture, leaves, patterns, visual shapes given three-dimensionality through the print.
- The clarity of the metallic sculptures and the resulting illusion of three-dimensionality made me want to reach into the print and stroke them.
three-dimensionally
- But my situation has allowed me to see more points of view than just one, to see three-dimensionally.
- The anatomy of the operating area is assessed and displayed accurately and three-dimensionally.
- The most informative specimens were three-dimensionally preserved trunks with leafy shoots still attached.
Rhymes
- black maple
- Black Maria
- black mark
- black market
- black marketeer
- black-marketeering
- black marketing
- black martin
- black mass
- black master
- black medick
- Black Mesa
- black metal
- Black Monday
- black money
- Black Monk
- Blackmore, R. D.
- Black Mountain
- Black Mountaineer
- blackmouth
- black-mouthed
- black-mouthed dogfish
- black movement
- black mullet
- Blackmun, Harry