| 单词 | sinuous |
| 释义 | sinuous (once / 3788 pages) adj Sinuous means winding or curvy. If you get lost on a sinuous mountain path, you'll need a compass or a GPS to figure out which direction leads back to camp. The adjective sinuous comes from the Latin word sinus, which means to curve or bend. If you have a sinuous body, then you have lots of curves. Snakes use sinuous movements to travel. Live Oak trees have particularly sinuous branches. We usually use sinuous to talk about physical shapes of bodies or pathways, but you could also describe someone's logic as sinuous if it wanders all over the place when they're trying to explain something. WORD FAMILYsinuous: sinuosity, sinuously, sinuousness+/sinuosity: sinuosities USAGE EXAMPLESThe audience kept applauding until the lilting, sinuous melody was repeated. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) He is the movie-world’s Colossus of Rhodes, a figure of pure-granite maleness yet with something feline, and a sinuous, gravelly voice. The Guardian(Dec 09, 2016) Turbulence marked the outer movements, particularly in a finale that offered little consolation, while the second and third held their shape, sinuous and desolate. New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) adj curved or curving in and out Syn sinuate, wiggly curved, curving having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend |
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