| Main Entry: | flexuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding |
Synonyms: |
bending, crooked, curved, curving, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, tortuous, turning, wavering |
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked; indirect |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, bending, circuitous, confounding, confusing, curving, detouring, deviating, digressing, digressory, diverting, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuous, misleading, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, straying, tortuous, twisting, wandering |
Antonyms: |
direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | flabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | baggy, fat |
Synonyms: |
drooping, enervated, flaccid, flexuous, floppy, gone to seed, hanging, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, out of condition, out of shape, pendulous, rusty, sagging, shapeless, slack, sloppy, soft, tender, toneless, unfit, yielding |
Antonyms: |
firm, lean, slim, taut, thin, tight |
| Main Entry: | limp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not stiff; weak |
Synonyms: |
bending, debilitated, drooping, droopy, ductile, enervated, exhausted, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flexuous, flimsy, floppy, impressible, infirm, languid, languishing, lax, lethargic, limber, listless, loose, plastic, pliable, pliant, relaxed, slack, soft, spent, spiritless, supple, tired, unsubstantial, weakened, wearied, worn out, yielding |
Antonyms: |
hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff, straight, strong, unbending |
| Main Entry: | sinuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding, twisting |
Synonyms: |
anfractuous, circuitous, coiling, convoluted, crooked, curved, curvy, deviative, devious, flexuous, indirect, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, snaky, supple, tortuous, twisting and turning, undulating, vagrant |
Antonyms: |
straight, untwisted, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | snaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding |
Synonyms: |
anfractuous, convoluted, entwined, flexuous, indirect, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, writhing, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straight, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | tortuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very twisted |
Synonyms: |
anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting, vermiculate, winding, zigzag |
| Notes: | tortuous is 'winding, crooked, full of twists and turns' and torturous (based on 'torture') is 'painful, characterized by suffering' |
Antonyms: |
direct, straight, untwisted |
| Main Entry: | winding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bending, turning |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, anfractuous, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curving, devious, flexuous, gyrating, indirect, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, spiraling, tortuous, twisting, wriggly, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straight, unbent |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | flexile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically malleable |
Synonyms: |
bendable, bendy, ductile, elastic, flexible, flexuous, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, tractable, workable |