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undulating

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,061 of 15,258mostly written

Undulating means rising and falling in gentle waves. Undulating hills, an undulating road, undulating country.

It is a favourite of estate agents and race organisers, and in the second case it is a warning — an undulating course means hills nobody wants to call hills. The word describes a shape and a motion at once, from the Latin for a wave.

Definitions of undulating

  1. 1adjectiveundulatingRising and falling in gentle waves.C1

    “The road wound through undulating farmland dotted with sheep.”

undulating is a quality of shape.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *wed-

  2. Latin

    unda — wave

  3. New Latin

    undulātus

  4. English

    undulate

  5. English, today

    undulating

undulate 1664; New Latin undulātus, the perfect passive participle of undulō (see -ate), from an unattested *undula (“small wave”), diminutive of Latin unda (“wave”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Nature & Weather

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undulating in the wild

  • Because of its largely undulating and rocky terrain, it is sparsely populated apart from flat ground near the coast.

    North Lochs

  • In mathematics, an undulating number is a number that has the digit form ABABAB... when in the base 10 number system.

    Undulating number

  • Some larger undulating numbers are: 1010, 80808, 171717, 989898989.

    Undulating number

  • The course opens with a par five hole with a tee-off from an elevated tee to an undulating fairway, leaving two shots to make the guarded green.

    Wenvoe Castle Golf Club

  • The landscape of this woreda has been described as undulating mountains covered by a scattered settlement pattern, which make development efforts more difficult.

    Bereh

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the unda family

surroundredundant

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