Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

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  • adverb In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Etymologies

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pentagonal +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • On the fifth floor, Vera Mazel and Josie Grey, a couple of old spinsters, are -- curiously -- working on a pentagonally shaped puzzle book.

    News & Politics Patrick Crerand 2010

  • My chagrin at the fact that young Dunn misspelled Obama's name not once but twice, in two different wrong ways, is doubly, trebly, pentagonally offset by the fact that this heartening act took place in the very county in which I was born and raised.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2008

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