Sinuous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sinuous
       adj : curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn: {sinuate},
              {wiggly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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