flexuous
11flexuous — Synonyms and related words: adaptable, ambagious, anfractuous, bendable, bending, bendy, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, circumlocutory, compliant, convoluted, convolutional, crankled, crooked, curvy, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile,… …
12flexuous — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Repeatedly curving in alternate directions: anfractuous, meandrous, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, tortuous, winding. See REPETITION, STRAIGHT. 2. Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or… …
13flexuous — [ flɛksjʊəs] adjective chiefly literary full of bends and curves. Derivatives flexuosity noun flexuously adverb …
14flexuous — a. Winding, bending, tortuous, sinuous, sinuate, crooked, serpentine …
15flexuous — flex·u·ous …
16flexuous — flex•u•ous [[t]ˈflɛk ʃu əs[/t]] adj. full of bends or curves; sinuous; winding • Etymology: 1595–1605; < L flexuōsus=flexu(s) (see flex I) + ōsus ous flex u•os′i•ty ˈɒs ɪ ti n. flex′u•ous•ly, adv …
17flexuous — /ˈflɛkʃuəs/ (say flekshoohuhs) adjective full of bends or curves; winding; sinuous. Also, flexuose /ˈflɛkʃuoʊs/ (say flekshoohohs). {Latin flexuōsus, from flexus a bending} –flexuously, adverb …
18flexuous — adj. full of bends; winding. Derivatives: flexuosity n. flexuously adv. Etymology: L flexuosus f. flexus bending formed as FLEX(1) …
19flexuose — , flexuous. Of zig zag shape, e.g. alluded to in the much twisted rachis of Macrozamia flexuosa …
20winding — winding, sinuous, serpentine, tortuous, flexuous can all mean curving first one way and then another. Winding, the general and the ordinary term, often implies spiral ascent {winding stairs} {a winding mountain road} When applied to things in a… …
