curly
/ˈkəːli
/adjective (curlier, curliest)
Made, growing, or arranged in curls or curves: my hair is just naturally thick and curly...
- Make tiny balls of the dough, flatten on the kulkul board and curl to resemble curly shells.
- She pulled back her light brown ringlets into a curly chignon and tied it with a green ribbon.
- At the nape of her neck she fastened her ringlets in a curly chignon with a black ribbon.
Synonyms
wavy, curling, curled, crimped, permed, frizzy, frizzed, kinked, kinky, crinkly, fuzzy, corkscrew;
wiry
rare ringletty, ringletted
Derivatives
curliness
/ noun ...- I can take a joke as much as the next guy, but I still couldn't get the curliness out of my hair two weeks later.
- Organic cucumbers are less uniform in shape than normal ones, and have to be demoted to Class IIs because they can have a curliness of up to 20 mm per 10 cm.
- Yes I must say I have a vested interest in curliness.
Rhymes
- for (or in) a good cause
- for (or on) hire
- for pity's sake
- for-profit
- forrader
- forrard
- for real
- for rent
- Forrest, John
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford
- forsake
- forsaken
- forsakenness
- forsaker
- for short
- for show
- for some reason
- forsooth
- for starters
- Forster, E. M.
- forsterite
- for sure
- forswear
- Forsyth, Frederick
- forsythia