 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sinuous
adjective: curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn: {sinuate},
{wiggly}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sinuous \Sin"u*ous\, adjective [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}, adverb
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. --Milton.
Gardens bright with sinuous rills. --Coleridge.
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
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