sinuous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
sinuous
    adj 1: curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn:
           {sinuate}, {sinuous}, {wiggly}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sinuous \Sin"u*ous\, 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. -- {Sin"u*ous*ly}, adv.
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         Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. --Milton.
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         Gardens bright with sinuous rills.       --Coleridge.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wreathy
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