SINUOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sinuous mean? 

• SINUOUS (adjective)
  The adjective SINUOUS has 2 senses:

1. curved or curving in and out

2. gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease

  Familiarity information: SINUOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINUOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Curved or curving in and out

Synonyms:

sinuate; sinuous; wiggly

Context example:

wiggly lines

Similar:

curved; curving (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)

Derivation:

sinuosity; sinuousness (having curves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease

Synonyms:

lissom; lissome; lithe; lithesome; sinuous; supple

Similar:

graceful (characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution)

Derivation:

sinuosity; sinuousness (having curves)

 Context examples 

Along the sinuous tail in the center, and to the left, the groupings of red point sources clumped in the green are also young stars.

(A Space Spider Watches Over Young Stars, NASA)

Long, sinuous, tendril-like structures seen in the vicinity of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus originate directly from geysers erupting from its surface, according to scientists studying images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

(Icy Tendrils Reaching into Saturn Ring Traced to Their Source, NASA)

It wavered and quivered above us for a minute, the morning sun gleaming upon its sleek, sinuous coils.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next instant, with a sinuous dive he swept under Harker's arm, ere his blow could fall, and, grasping a handful of the money from the floor, dashed across the room, threw himself at the window.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)