anfractuous
11anfractuous — Synonyms and related words: ambagious, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate, convoluted, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose, flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering,… …
12anfractuous — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Repeatedly curving in alternate directions: flexuous, meandrous, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, tortuous, winding. See REPETITION, STRAIGHT. 2. Not taking a direct or straight line or course: circuitous, circular …
13anfractuous — adj. sinuous, windy; curving; circuitous; tortuous …
14anfractuous — [ən fraktjʊəs] adjective literary sinuous or circuitous. Derivatives anfractuosity noun Origin C16: from late L. anfractuosus …
15anfractuous — a. Winding, meandering, crooked, serpentine, devious, tortuous, sinuous, intricate, ambagious …
16anfractuous — adj winding, turning, sinuous, serpentine, snaky, tortuous, vermiculate; circuitous, meandering, devious; roundabout, ambagious, flexuous, curvy, curved; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute, coiled; twisted, crooked, bent; mazy, labyrinthine …
17anfractuous — an·frac·tu·ous …
18anfractuous — a. Botany, wavy; snake like; spiral shaped. ♦ anfractuosity, n …
19Anfractuousness — Anfractuous An*frac tu*ous, a. [L. anfractuosus, fr. anfractus a turning, a winding, fr. the unused anfringere to wind, bend; an , for amb + fractus, p. p. of frangere to break: cf. F. anfractueux.] Winding; full of windings and turnings;… …
20Anfractuose — An*frac tu*ose (?; 135), a. [See {Anfractuous}.] Anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers. [1913 Webster] …
