Waviest - English meaning

adjective

Full of creases or wrinkles; wrinkled.

Usage examples:

Brown crinkly paper

adjective

Used to say something is covered in many small lines and folds

Usage examples:

Rhubarb chard has luminous red stems and dark, crinkly leaves., she wore a crinkly green silk dress.

noun

A game played on ice, especially in scotland and canada, in which large round flat stones are slid across the surface towards a mark. members of a team use brooms to sweep the surface of the ice in the path of the stone to control its speed and direction.

Usage examples:

If you knew that the preliminary rounds of olympic curling began this week, you're probably on the …

verb

Form or cause to form into a curved or spiral shape.

Usage examples:

Her fingers curled round the microphone

adjective

Made, growing, or arranged in curls or curves.

Usage examples:

My hair is just naturally thick and curly

adjective

Having the form of a curve; bent.

Usage examples:

Birds with long curved bills

verb

Form or cause to form a curve.

Usage examples:

Her mouth curved in a smile

adjective

Having a rounded or smoothly bending shape

Usage examples:

A curved surface, the knife has a short, curved blade.

verb

Form or cause to form a curve.

Usage examples:

Her mouth curved in a smile

noun

A line or outline which gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length.

Usage examples:

The parapet wall sweeps down in a bold curve

verb

Present participle of curve

Usage examples:

The road curves round to the left.

adjective

Having curves.

Usage examples:

Curvy lines

verb

Form or cause to form a sharp twist or curve.

Usage examples:

The river kinks violently in a right angle

noun

A sharp twist or curve in something that is otherwise straight.

Usage examples:

A kink in the road

noun

A crick in the neck.

Usage examples:

His neck had a kink from sleeping in one position for so long.

adjective

Following a winding course.

Usage examples:

Meandering rivers flow at vastly different rates

noun

An act of following a winding course.

Usage examples:

Ox-bow lagoons left by the river's meanderings

verb

(of a river or road) follow a winding course.

Usage examples:

A river that meandered gently through a meadow

verb

(of water) form or flow with a series of small waves on the surface.

Usage examples:

The mediterranean rippled and sparkled

noun

A small wave or series of waves on the surface of water, especially as caused by a slight breeze or an object dropping into it.

Usage examples:

He dived into the pool leaving barely a ripple

noun

A type of ice cream with wavy lines of coloured flavoured syrup running through it.

Usage examples:

A family block of raspberry ripple

adjective

Consisting of a line or lines that curve and twist in a way that is not regular

Usage examples:

Squiggly lines, alfe menashe sits on the squiggly border between israel and the west bank.

adjective

Having a smoothly rising and falling form or outline.

Usage examples:

The undulating country lanes of northern ireland

verb

Move or go with a smooth up-and-down motion.

Usage examples:

The surface of the liquid undulated gently

verb

To have a continuous up and down shape or movement, like waves on the sea

Usage examples:

The road undulates for five miles before a steep climb., the undulating countryside

noun

A twisting movement or course.

Usage examples:

The windings of the stream

adjective

Following a twisting or spiral course.

Usage examples:

Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase

verb

Cause (someone) to have difficulty breathing because of exertion or a blow to the stomach.

Usage examples:

The fall nearly winded him

noun

A line or course having abrupt alternate right and left turns.

Usage examples:

She traced a zigzag on the metal with her finger

adjective

Having the form of a zigzag; veering alternately to right and left.

Usage examples:

When chased by a predator, some animals take a zigzag course

adverb

So as to move right and left alternately.

Usage examples:

She drives zigzag across the city