Word Meanings - SINUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINUOUS)

• Circuitous
• Indirect
• tortuous
• devious
• serpentine
• round about
• sinuous
• winding
• Serpentine
• Winding
• meandering
• anfractuous
• undulating
• anguilliform
• vermicular
• coiled
• Tortuous
• Devious
• circuitous
• ambiguous
• complicated
• deceitful
• crooked
• twisting
• indirect
• sinister
• indexed

Related words: (words related to SINUOUS)

• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• WINDBORE
  The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• CROOKBACK
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• CROOKEDLY
  In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• CHOKING COIL
  A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots