sinuous

Other forms of sinuous

comparative

sinuouser·

superlative

sinuousest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sinuous

What does sinuous mean?

sinuous means "curved or curving in and out". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sinuous?

sinuous has 2 syllables: sin-uous. The stress falls on "sin". In IPA it is /ˈsɪnwəs/.

What is another word for sinuous?

Close synonyms include sinuate, wiggly, lissome, lissom, lithe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sinuous a common word?

sinuous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.