sinuously

1. 1.

   in a sinuous manner

Questions about sinuously

What does sinuously mean?

sinuously means "in a sinuous manner".

How many syllables are in sinuously?

sinuously has 4 syllables and divides as si-nu-ou-sly 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 sinuously a common word?

sinuously 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.