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flexuous

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Adjective
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flex=u=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

flexuousa. [L. flexuosus, fr. flexus a bending, turning.].
  •  Having turns, windings, or flexures.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Wavering; not steady; flickering.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flexuous, adj. full of bends; winding.

Derivative
flexuosity n. flexuously adv.
Etymology
L flexuosus f. flexus bending formed as FLEX(1)

THESAURUS

flexuous

adaptable, ambagious, anfractuous, bendable, bending, bendy, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, circumlocutory, compliant, convoluted, convolutional, crankled, crooked, curvy, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuose, formable, formative, giving, hairpin, impressible, impressionable, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, mazy, meandering, meandrous, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, sensitive, sequacious, serpentine, shapable, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, springy, staggered, submissive, supple, susceptible, torsional, tortile, tortuous, tractable, tractile, turning, twisting, twisty, whippy, whorled, willowy, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, yielding, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways

ROGET THESAURUS

flexuous

Convolution

N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.


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