| Main Entry: | curly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | looping, forming ringlets |
Synonyms: |
coiled, convoluted, corkscrew, crimped, crimpy, crinkling, crinkly, crisp, curled, curling, frizzed, frizzy, fuzzy, kinky, looped, permed, spiralled, waved, waving, wavy, winding, wound |
Antonyms: |
straight |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
Synonyms: |
S-shaped, arced, arched, arciform, arrondi, biflected, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, curvilinear, declinate, elliptical, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, round, rounded, serpentine, sigmoid, sinuous, skewed, snaky, sweeping, swirly, turned, twisted, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
Antonyms: |
straight |
| Main Entry: | kinky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | twisted |
Synonyms: |
coiled, crimped, curled, curly, frizzled, frizzy, knotted, matted, matty, rolled, tangled |
| Notes: | quirky means strikingly unconventional or given to idiosyncrasies; kinky means showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes - or in small tight curls |
Antonyms: |
straight, unkinked, untwisted |
| Main Entry: | crinkly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | wavy |
Synonyms: |
crimped, crinkled, curly, sinuous, wrinkled |
| Main Entry: | wavy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sinuous |
Synonyms: |
bumpy, crinkled, curly, curved, twisted, undulating |
| Main Entry: | wavy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undulating |
Synonyms: |
bumpy, coiled, curly, curved, flexuous, plangent, rolling, sinuate, sinuous, snaky, squiggly, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulatory, unstable, vermiculate, waving, winding |
Antonyms: |
straight |