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Sinuous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SIN'UOUS, a. [L. sinus.] Wind; crooked; bending in and out; as a sinuous pipe. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin sinuosus, from sinus Date: 1578 1. a. of a serpentine or wavy form ; winding b. marked by strong lithe movements 2. intricate, complex • sinuously adverb • sinuousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. with many curves; tortuous, undulating. Derivatives: sinuously adv. sinuousness n. Etymology: F sinueux or L sinuosus (as SINUS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. --Milton. Gardens bright with sinuous rills. --Coleridge.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is sinuous moves with smooth twists and turns. (LITERARY) ...the silent, sinuous approach of a snake through the long grass... ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Winding, crooked, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, serpentine, flexuous, bending in and out.

Moby Thesaurus

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