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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WAVY, a. [from wave.[
1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves; as the wavy sea.
2. Playing to and fro; undulating.
Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.
3. Undulating on the border or on the surface; a botanical use.
Wawes or waes, for waves. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (of hair) having waves; "she had long wavy hair"
2: uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves [syn: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy, wavelike]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (wavier; -est) Date: circa 1586 1. rising or swelling in waves; also abounding in waves <wavy hair> 2. moving with an undulating motion ; fluctuating; also marked by wavering <wavy lines> 3. marked by undulation ; rolling • wavily adverb • waviness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (wavier, waviest) (of a line or surface) having waves or alternate contrary curves (wavy hair). Derivatives: wavily adv. waviness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wavy Wav"y, a. 1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves. ``The wavy seas.'' --Chapman. 2. Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. --Prior. 3. (Bot.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(wavier, waviest) 1. Wavy hair is not straight or curly, but curves slightly. She had short, wavy brown hair. ADJ 2. A wavy line has a series of regular curves along it. The boxes were decorated with a wavy gold line. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Undulating, waving, playing to and fro.

Moby Thesaurus

adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, bent, billowing, billowy, capricious, changeable, changeful, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, geosynclinal, giddy, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mercurial, moody, rambling, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, restless, rolling, roving, scatterbrained, serpentine, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, sinuous, spasmodic, spineless, surgy, tortuous, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulating, undulative, undulatory, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy