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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈsɪn.ju.əs/ Audio: en-au-sinuous.ogg Forms: more sinuous [comparative], most sinuous [superlative]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sinuōsus. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la|sinuōsus}} Learned borrowing from Latin sinuōsus Head templates: {{en-adj}} sinuous (comparative more sinuous, superlative most sinuous)
  1. Having curves in alternate directions; meandering. Synonyms: curvy, serpentine, wavy, windy Translations (having curves in alternate directions; meandering): криволичещ (krivoličešt) (Bulgarian), лъкатушен (lǎkatušen) (Bulgarian), извиващ се (izvivašt se) (Bulgarian), sinuós (Catalan), kiemurteleva (Finnish), mutkitteleva (Finnish), meanderoiva (note: of river, technical term) (Finnish), sinueux (French), sinuoso (Galician), kurvenreich (German), gewunden (German), sinuōsus (Latin), sinuoso [masculine] (Portuguese), волнистый (volnistyj) (Russian), lùbach (Scottish Gaelic), sinuoso (Spanish), slingrande (Swedish), kurvig (Swedish), krokig (Swedish), pakiwal-kiwal (Tagalog), dolambaçlı (Turkish), yılankavi (Turkish), ngoằn ngoèo (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-sinuous-en-adj-jX~Dipdd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ous, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 13 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ous: 64 17 19 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 68 15 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 64 12 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 7 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 75 14 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 68 17 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 69 16 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 78 10 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 71 12 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 78 10 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 73 14 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 80 9 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 74 12 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 74 12 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 71 13 17 Disambiguation of 'having curves in alternate directions; meandering': 97 2 1
  2. Moving gracefully and in a supple manner. Synonyms: fluid Translations (moving gracefully and in a supple manner): sulava (Finnish), sulavaliikkeinen (Finnish), smidig (Swedish), mjuk (Swedish), vig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-sinuous-en-adj-E-5zZd7g Disambiguation of 'moving gracefully and in a supple manner': 3 97 1
  3. (figurative) Morally crooked; shifty. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-sinuous-en-adj-FRubKM14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sinuous ballweed, sinuosity, sinuously, sinuousness Related terms: sine, insinuate
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          "alternate"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ],
        [
          "meandering",
          "meandering"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "curvy"
        },
        {
          "word": "serpentine"
        },
        {
          "word": "wavy"
        },
        {
          "word": "windy"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "abrupt"
        },
        {
          "word": "broken"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We were entranced by her sinuous dance.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Moving gracefully and in a supple manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gracefully",
          "gracefully"
        ],
        [
          "supple",
          "supple"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fluid"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Christopher Hitchens, No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton:",
          "text": "On 16 December 1999, Lanny Davis, one of the President's more sinuous apologists, was asked on an MSNBC chat show to address the issue and replied that Ms. Broaddrick had been adjudged unreliable by the FBI.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Morally crooked; shifty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crooked",
          "crooked"
        ],
        [
          "shifty",
          "shifty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Morally crooked; shifty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɪn.ju.əs/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-sinuous.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/03/En-au-sinuous.ogg/En-au-sinuous.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/En-au-sinuous.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "krivoličešt",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "криволичещ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "lǎkatušen",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "лъкатушен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izvivašt se",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "извиващ се"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "sinuós"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "kiemurteleva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "mutkitteleva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "of river, technical term",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "meanderoiva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "sinueux"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "sinuoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "kurvenreich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "gewunden"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "sinuōsus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sinuoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "volnistyj",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "волнистый"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "lùbach"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "sinuoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "slingrande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "kurvig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "krokig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "pakiwal-kiwal"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "dolambaçlı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "yılankavi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "having curves in alternate directions; meandering",
      "word": "ngoằn ngoèo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "moving gracefully and in a supple manner",
      "word": "sulava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "moving gracefully and in a supple manner",
      "word": "sulavaliikkeinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "moving gracefully and in a supple manner",
      "word": "smidig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "moving gracefully and in a supple manner",
      "word": "mjuk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "moving gracefully and in a supple manner",
      "word": "vig"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Mississippi River",
    "Zoo Atlanta"
  ],
  "word": "sinuous"
}

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