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sinuate |
sinuated |
sinuation |
sinuose |
sinuosity |
sinuous
| sinuously
| sinuousness
| sinupalliate
| sinus
| sinus cavernosus
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sinuous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sinuous has 1 sense
- sinuous(s = adj.all) sinuate, wiggly - curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" Derived forms noun sinuosity1, noun sinuousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sinuous, a. [L. sinuosus, fr. sinus a bent surface, a curve: cf. F. sinueux. See Sinus.].
Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked. [1913 Webster]
"Streaking the ground with sinuous trace."
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"Gardens bright with sinuous rills."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
sinuous, adj. with many curves; tortuous, undulating.
Derivative
sinuously adv. sinuousness n.
Etymology
F sinueux or L sinuosus (as SINUS)
THESAURUS
sinuous
ambagious, anfractuous, bent, billowing, billowy, circuitous, circumlocutory, convoluted, convolutional, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, flexuose, flexuous, geosynclinal, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, snake-shaped, snaky, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, undulant, wavy, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathyROGET THESAURUS
sinuous
Convolution
N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.
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