sinuous
Syllables: sin·u·ous/ˈsɪn.ju.əs/
sinuous adjective: having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
Adjective
sinuous (comparative more sinuous, superlative most sinuous)
- Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
- We followed every bend of the sinuous river.
- [W]hen a transverse, or, within certain limits, an oblique impulse, impinges laterally upon a continuous mountain range, two movements of vibration are communicated; the one, a wave transmitted along and in the line of the axis, the other a transverse wave, which causes the axial line to sway...1862, Robert Mallet, Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857: The First Principles of Observational Seismology as Developed in the Report to the Royal Society of London of the Expedition Made by Command...
- Synonyms:
- curvy, serpentine, wavy, windy
- Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.
- We were entranced by her sinuous dance.
- Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- fluid
- Morally crooked; shifty.
- On 16 December 1999, Lanny Davis, one of the President's more sinuous apologists, was asked on an MSNBC chat show to address the issue and replied that Ms. Broaddrick had been adjudged unreliable by the FBI.2000, Christopher Hitchens, No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
sinuous meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
sinuous in Tamil
- நெளிந்துநெளிந்து செல்லுகின்ற
sinuous in Bengali
- সর্পিল, আঁকাবাঁকা, ঢেউখেলানো
sinuous in Malayalam
- സർപ്പാകൃതിയായ, വളഞ്ഞ, കുടിലമായ, പാപിയായ
sinuous in Kannada
- ಡೊಂಕು, ತಿರುವುಮುರುವು, ಬಾಗುಗಳು ಇರುವ, ತಿರುವು ಮುರುವಾದ, ಡೊಂಕುಡೊಂಕಾದ, ತಿರುವು ಇರುವ
More languagesFewer languages
- sinuous in Tagalog
- pakiwal-kiwal
- sinuous in Vietnamese
- ngoằn ngoèo
Examples of sinuous in a sentence
- The way through the wood was shorter, but it was also sinuous.1922, E[dith] Nesbit, The Lark, London: Hutchinson, →OCLC:
- Neots at all but 110 m.p.h. towards those sinuous curves round the bank of the Ouse near Offord, and were almost on to them before we suddenly braked.1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
- This is the perfect climbing tree: wrought by two centuries of good London living, its sinuous spread presents any number of routes into the canopy.2016 March 28, Jack Cooke, “Heaven up here: the joy of urban tree climbing”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2016:
Synonyms of sinuous
Antonyms
Forms of sinuous
| comparative | more sinuous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sinuous |
Origin of sinuous
Learned borrowing from Latin sinuōsus.
Words formed from sinuous
Questions about sinuous
- What does sinuous mean?
- Sinuous means having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
- What is sinuous in Tamil?
- Sinuous in Tamil is நெளிந்துநெளிந்து செல்லுகின்ற. See Sinuous meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use sinuous in a sentence?
- The way through the wood was shorter, but it was also sinuous.
- What part of speech is sinuous?
- Sinuous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sinuous?
- Sinuous is pronounced /ˈsɪn.ju.əs/.
Words near sinuous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sinuous (page history and authors); sinuous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sinuous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sinuous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sinuous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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