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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective snaky has 1 sense
- snaky(s = adj.all) serpentine, snakelike - resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand" Derived form noun snake1
CIDE DICTIONARY
snaky, a.
- Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding. [1913 Webster]"The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave it an appearance of snaky life." [1913 Webster]
- Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful. [1913 Webster]"So to the coast of Jordan he directs
His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles." [1913 Webster] - Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand. Dryden. [1913 Webster]"That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
snaky, adj.
1 of or like a snake.
2 winding; sinuous.
3 showing coldness, ingratitude, venom, or guile.
4 a infested with snakes. b (esp. of the hair of the Furies) composed of snakes.
5 Austral. sl. angry; irritable.
1 of or like a snake.
2 winding; sinuous.
3 showing coldness, ingratitude, venom, or guile.
4 a infested with snakes. b (esp. of the hair of the Furies) composed of snakes.
5 Austral. sl. angry; irritable.
Derivative
snakily adv. snakiness n.
THESAURUS
snaky
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, aberrant, aberrative, acute, ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch, artful, astute, batrachian, cagey, canny, circuitous, circumlocutory, clever, colubriform, convolutional, crafty, crawling, creeping, crocodilian, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, diplomatic, discursive, eellike, errant, erratic, excursive, feline, flexuose, flexuous, foxy, froggy, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, involute, involuted, involutional, knowing, labyrinthine, lizardlike, lumbriciform, mazy, meandering, meandrous, ophidian, out-of-the-way, pawky, planetary, politic, rambling, ready, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, resourceful, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, saurian, scheming, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, sharp, shifting, shifty, shrewd, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, slick, slippery, slithering, sly, smooth, snake-shaped, snakelike, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, stray, subtile, subtle, supple, swerving, tactical, toadish, torsional, tortile, tortuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering, vermiform, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, vulpine, wandering, wary, whorled, wily, winding, wormlike, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzagROGET THESAURUS
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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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