flexuous

1. 1.

   having turns or windings

   “the flexuous bed of the stream”

   Similarcurved

Questions about flexuous

What does flexuous mean?

flexuous means "having turns or windings".

How many syllables are in flexuous?

flexuous has 3 syllables and divides as flex-u-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is flexuous a common word?

flexuous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.