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WAVY (wavier, waviest)
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, waviest Dictionary entry overview: What does wavy mean?
• WAVY (adjective)
The adjective WAVY has 2 senses:
1. (of hair) having waves
2. uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves
Familiarity information: WAVY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: waviest
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of hair) having waves
Context example:
she had long wavy hair
Similar:
curly ((of hair) having curls or waves)
Derivation:
wave (a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair)
waviness ((of hair) a tendency to curl)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves
Synonyms:
crinkled; crinkly; rippled; wavelike; wavy
Similar:
uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)
Derivation:
waviness (unevenness produced by waves or wrinkles)
Context examples
The long hair is flat and a bit wavy.
(English Setter, NCI Thesaurus)
The folds exist because the fractures in Enceladus' surface are more wavy than perfectly straight.
(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)
Mrs. March folded the wavy chestnut lock, and laid it away with a short gray one in her desk.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The long, coarse, outer coat is either straight or slightly wavy, while the undercoat is soft and thick.
(Great Pyrenees, NCI Thesaurus)
The coat is medium-length, either straight or quite wavy, with a thick undercoat.
(Kuvasz, NCI Thesaurus)
The hair is long and wavy, but not curly.
(Low Chen, NCI Thesaurus)
The Briard is a large, muscular herding dog with a coarse long, slightly wavy double coat.
(Briard, NCI Thesaurus)
Argent and azure, a barry wavy of six.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The profuse coat varies from wavy to curly and comes in any color, including cream, gold, white, silver, blue, and black.
(Havanese, NCI Thesaurus)
The medium-length coat is flat or wavy and feathered, and comes in liver and white, and black and white, blue or liver roan.
(English Springer Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
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