sinuous

UK/ˈsɪn.ju.əs/US/ˈsɪn.ju.əs/

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Sinuous means winding in smooth supple curves. A sinuous river.

It describes shape and movement together, which is why it suits both a road and a dancer. A sinuous line has no corners at all, which is what separates it from a zigzag.

Definitions of sinuous

1adjectivesinuousWinding in smooth supple curves.C1
“The sinuous road took an hour to cover eleven miles.”

sinuous is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin
sinuōsus
English, today
sinuous

Learned borrowing from Latin sinuōsus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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sinuous in the wild

To the west of these peaks is the sinuous Rima Hadley rille.
Mons Hadley
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a stream.
Meander
The result of this coupled erosion and sedimentation is the formation of a sinuous course as the channel migrates back and forth across the axis of a floodplain.
Meander
The four categories of river regimes are sinuous canali-form rivers, sinuous point bar rivers, sinuous braided rivers, and non-sinuous braided rivers.
River morphology
Driftwood, floating seaweed, foam, and other floating debris may accumulate, forming sinuous lines called tidelines (although they generally have nothing to do with the tide).
Tideline

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