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sinuous
What does sinuous mean?
sinuous (adjective): curved or curving in and out.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use sinuous in a sentence?
How do you pronounce sinuous?
/ˈsɪnjuəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does sinuous come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin sinuōsus.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “sinuous” mean?
done on purpose; intentional
Not quite: that's what deliberate means.
curved or curving in and out
Right! That's what “sinuous” means.
every second one of a series
Not quite: that's what alternate means.
filled with a great quantity
Not quite: that's what laden means.
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