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sinuous

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Adjective
 : 
sin=u=ous

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective sinuous has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

sinuousa. [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.  [1913 Webster]
    "Streaking the ground with sinuous trace."  [1913 Webster]
    "Gardens bright with sinuous rills."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sinuous, adj. with many curves; tortuous, undulating.

Derivative
sinuously adv. sinuousness n.
Etymology
F sinueux or L sinuosus (as SINUS)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

sinuous

Convolution

N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.

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