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| Main Entry: | serpentine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding; sly |
| Synonyms: | artful, cagey, circuitous, clever, convoluted, crafty, cunning, curved, foxy, indirect, meandering, shrewd, sinuous, slick, slinky, snaky*, subtle, supple, wily, anfractuous, coiling, curvy, mazy, meandrous, snakelike, twisting, twisting and turning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | convoluted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complicated |
| Synonyms: | baffling, complex, confused, elaborate, impenetrable, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, perplexing, puzzling, serpentine, tangled, tortuous |
| Antonyms: | simple, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | convolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loop, spiral |
| Synonyms: | coil, complexity, contortion, intricacy, serpentine, swirl, twist, undulation, winding, coiling, curlicue, flexing, gyration, helix, involution, sinuosity, sinuousness, snaking, tortuousness |
| Antonyms: | line, straightness |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
| Synonyms: | arched, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, elliptical, round, rounded, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, sweeping, twisted, S-shaped, arced, arciform, arrondi, biflected, curvilinear, declinate, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, sigmoid, skewed, swirly, turned, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous |
| Notes: | deceitful means intended to deceive or cheat while deceptive means causing one to believe what is not true or likely to mislead someone |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | bad, crazed, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, fired, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hellish, impious, infernal, insane, inspired, mad, maniacal, manic, possessed, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, violent, wicked, aroused, demoniac, demoniacal |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
| Main Entry: | devilish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wicked |
| Synonyms: | accursed, atrocious, bad, cursed, damnable, demonic, detestable, diabolic, diabolical, evil, execrable, fiendish, hellish, infernal, inhuman, iniquitous, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, villainous, Mephistophelian, brutish, cloven-footed, demoniac, hellborn |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
| Main Entry: | diabolic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, fiendish |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, cruel, damnable, demonic, devilish, hellish, impious, infernal, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, shocking, unhallowed, unpleasant, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, Mephistophelian, demoniac |
| Antonyms: | gentle, kind, moral, nice |
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long-winded*, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, secondary, serpentine*, sinister, sinuous, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag, circumlocutory, long way home, long-drawn-out, periphrastic, sidelong, snaking, sneaking, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, straightforward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | labyrinthine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mazelike |
| Synonyms: | complex, convoluted, elaborate, intricate, meandering, serpentine, sinuous, tangled, tortuous, wandering, winding, zigzag, mazy, twisting |
| Antonyms: | simple, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | sinuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding, twisting |
| Synonyms: | circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, devious, indirect, meandering, serpentine, snaky*, supple, tortuous, undulating, vagrant, anfractuous, coiling, curvy, deviative, flexuous, meandrous, twisting and turning |
| Antonyms: | straight, untwisted, unwinding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | winding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bending, turning |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, devious, indirect, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, tortuous, zigzag, anfractuous, curving, flexuous, gyrating, mazy, spiraling, twisting, wriggly |
| Antonyms: | straight, unbent |
| Main Entry: | slinky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleek |
| Synonyms: | graceful, serpentine, sinuous, smooth, willowy |
| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent, angled |
| Synonyms: | angular, awry, bowed, circuitous, cockeyed*, crippled, curved, deformed, deviating, devious, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, indirect, irregular, kinky, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, oblique, rambling, roundabout, screwy*, serpentine, sinuous, slanted, snaky, spiral, topsy-turvy*, tortuous, twisted, uneven, winding, zigzag, agee, anfractuous, asymmetric, catawampus, contorted, curving, disfigured, incurving, knurly, not straight, out of shape, skewed, tilted, tortile, twisting, warped |
| Antonyms: | straight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding |
| Synonyms: | convoluted, indirect, meandering, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, writhing, zigzag, anfractuous, entwined, flexuous, meandrous, twisting |
| Antonyms: | straight, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | tortuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very twisted |
| Synonyms: | bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, indirect, labyrinthine, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, winding, zigzag, anfractuous, flexuous, involute, mazy, meandrous, twisting, vermiculate |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, untwisted |
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked; indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bending, circuitous, confusing, deviating, errant, erratic, excursive, misleading, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, straying, tortuous, wandering, confounding, curving, detouring, digressing, digressory, diverting, flexuous, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | creeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | given to creeping |
| Synonyms: | clinging, horizontal, prostrate, recumbent, reptilian, serpentine, spreading, trailing, climbing, growing along the ground, procumbent, reptant, stoloniferous, vermicular, vinelike |
| Antonyms: | standing, upright, vertical |
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