Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun oblate

1 sense of oblate

Sense 1
oblate -- (a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life)
       => religious person -- (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)

Antonyms of adj oblate

1 sense of oblate

Sense 1
oblate (vs. prolate), pumpkin-shaped -- (having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles)

prolate (vs. oblate), watermelon-shaped -- (having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis")
        => cucumber-shaped -- (shaped like a cucumber)

Similarity of adj oblate

1 sense of oblate

Sense 1
oblate (vs. prolate), pumpkin-shaped -- (having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles)
          Also See-> rounded#1