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sinuous adjective [ ˈsɪnjʊəs ]

• having many curves and turns.
• "the river follows a sinuous trail through the dale"
Similar: winding, windy, serpentine, curving, twisting, meandering, snaking, snaky, zigzag, zigzagging, turning, bending, curling, coiling, undulating, tortuous, sinuate, ogee, anfractuous, flexuous, meandrous, serpentiform,
Opposite: straight,
Origin: late 16th century: from French sinueux or Latin sinuosus, from sinus ‘a bend’.


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