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单词 sinuous
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sinuousadj.

/ˈsɪnjuːəs/
Forms: Also 1600s sinewes (?).
Etymology: < Latin sinuōsus (see sinus n. and -ous suffix) or French sinueux; compare Italian sinuoso, Spanish sinuoso, Portuguese sinuoso.
1.
a. Characterized by or abounding in turns, curves, or sinuosities; sinuate, curving.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves
tortivous14..
anfractuous?a1425
tortuous1426
tortuea1500
snakish1532
winding1538
wormy1545
boughty1570
wriggled1572
sinuous1578
serpent-likea1586
crankled1594
serpent1597
snaky1600
flexuous1605
snaking1605
cringle-crangle1606
voluminous1611
serpenting?1614
serpentine1615
curvy1623
serpentizing1628
worming1631
lacinious1648
anguineous1656
anguine1657
anfractuose1680
twisting1683
vermicular1712
worm-like1721
flexuose1727
meandering1748
crinkum-crankum1766
serpentiform1777
serpentining1799
anguiform1800
ophite1828
tortuose1829
cranky1836
sinuose1836
serpentile1857
twisty1857
sinuated1859
vermiculatea1864
twinyc1868
tortive1880
crinkle-crankle1881
serpentinous1882
quirky1890
twistical1890
waggly1894
wriggly1901
squiggly1902
wiggly1903
contortionate1911
wig-waggy1914
curvaceous1965
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 28 It behoued the head of Radius also to be more depressed, & somewhat sinuous.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §132 It would be tryed, how..the Voice will be carried..in a Trumpet, which is a line Retorted; Or in some Pipe that were Sinuous.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 481 Whatever creeps the ground, Insect or Worme;..Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. View more context for this quotation
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse App. i. 11 The Seed-leaf..on its outside is sinuous or full of crinkles.
1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin 20 In a Cap's round sinuous Bottom laid.
1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 19 Sept. in Wks. (1955) VII. 323 Obstinate, deep and sinuous ulcers.
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 117 The mouth large, widely sinuous.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxiii. 280 The lungs..containing several sinuous cavities.
1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised i. 12 The slightest touch causes it to rupture transversely, in a sinuous line.
b. Of rivers, coasts, roads, routes, etc.
ΚΠ
1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 51 The Flood Meander, running with his sinewes, returnes, and windings.
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 179 Roving from Port to Port in that sinuous Region.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 165 Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain.., Conducts the eye along his sinuous course.
1810 T. L. Peacock Genius of Thames 7 While Thames impels, with sinuous flow, His silent-rolling stream below.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 56 Here were gardens bright with sinuous rills.
1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. xviii. 379 Its bold spurs enclosing sinuous river gorges.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xviii. 303 A sinuous band of highlands stretches almost continuously.
c. transferred. Intricate, complex; roundabout.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > complex
intricate?a1500
crabby1550
implicate1555
crabbed1561
intortive1575
implexeda1620
network1675
tortious1682
embarrassed1695
implex1712
wimpleda1722
wrapped1787
hydriform1822
torturous1841
sinuous1853
tortuous1858
involuteda1910
1853 N. Wiseman Ess. II. 338 The perplexities of this formulary,..its sinuous involutions,..make its character too plain, as a snare to the simple of heart.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table ix. 292 I have been sinuous as the Links of Forth..; sinuous, I say, but not..hard to follow for a reader of the right sort.
d. figurative. Deviating from the right; not straight-forward or direct; morally crooked.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [adjective]
scrithingOE
aberrantc1536
tripping1577
devious1633
sinuous1850
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > not straightforward
crooked?c1225
indirect1570
undirect1594
involved1612
unstraight1650
obliquous1757
tortuous1801
twistical1805
louche1819
hooky-crooky1833
sinuous1850
twisty1905
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > going astray > morally crooked (of path or course)
sinuous1850
1850 E. P. Whipple Ess. & Rev. (1856) I. 207 A man..who has acquired high station by no sinuous path.
1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. x. 230 The beginning of a sinuous course of extravagance.
1901 Scotsman 28 Feb. 6/3 The end of his sinuous career is in view.
2. Of movements: Taking place in curves.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [adjective] > curved (of movement)
sinuous1877
1877 I. Rosenthal Gen. Physiol. Muscles & Nerves 11 A..whip-like process by the sinuous motions of which these animals move themselves about in the water.
3. Of animals: Moving with supple bends of the body. Also of people.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > moving sinuously
writhing?1561
serpent-likea1586
wringling1596
winding1613
writhy1743
sinuous1897
1897 F. Thompson New Poems 143 The stealthy terror of the sinuous pard.
1906 B. Vaughan Sins of Society 129 The lithesome, sinuous girl trips with it across the stage to her mother.
4. quasi-adv. Sinuously.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adverb] > in many or winding curves
wrinklingly1387
cringle-crangle1781
crinkle-crankle1804
vermicularly1812
flexuously1846
sinuously1847
meanderingly1865
serpentiningly1871
sinuosely1874
sinuous1885
meandrically1886
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. i. 2 Now the line seems strung like a thread of iron.., now winds sinuous as a snake.

Derivatives

ˈsinuously adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adverb] > with sinuous motion
crinkum-crankum1656
sinuously1847
viperishly1870
the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adverb] > in many or winding curves
wrinklingly1387
cringle-crangle1781
crinkle-crankle1804
vermicularly1812
flexuously1846
sinuously1847
meanderingly1865
serpentiningly1871
sinuosely1874
sinuous1885
meandrically1886
1847 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 249 Whence it narrows rather sinuously to the posterior angles.
1880 T. Hodgkin Italy & her Invaders II. iii. v. 409 The dragon ensigns floated sinuously to the breeze.
ˈsinuousness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [noun] > winding curve(s) > quality or condition
sinuosity1597
tortuosity1603
flexuosity1611
flexure1628
sinuousness1684
windingness1730
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] > sinuous movement > quality of
sinuousness1924
1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 513 The..Streams which do arise from under the Mountains do evidence the hollowness, and Sinousness [sic] of them.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sinuousness, Fulness of Turnings and Windings.
1924 R. Macaulay Orphan Island xiii. §4 Like a sturdy little boy without feminine elegances, or any of Flora's wild-animal sinuousness.
1980 Early Music 8 308/1 Any actor reciting them..would certainly emphasize the contrast between the biting sk sound at the beginning of these two words and the powerful sinuousness of ‘l'onde’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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