About The Word Anfractuous
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Anfractuous
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What's The Definition Of Anfractuous?
[adj] full of twists and turns; "anfractuous cliffs"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Anfractuous: crooked Related Terms | Find terms related to Anfractuous: ambagious | circuitous | circumlocutory | cochlear | cochleate | convoluted | convolutional | corkscrew | corkscrewy | flexuose | flexuous | helical | helicoid | involute | involuted | involutional | labyrinthine | mazy | meandering | meandrous | rivose | rivulose | roundabout | ruffled | screw-shaped | scrolled | serpentine | sinuate | sinuose | sinuous | snaky | spiral | spiroid | torsional | tortile | tortuous | turbinal | turbinate | turning | twisting | twisty | verticillate | volute | voluted | whorled | winding | wreathlike | wreathy See Also | Anfractuous In Webster's Dictionary \An*frac"tu*ous\, a. [L. anfractuosus, fr. anfractus
a turning, a winding, fr. the unused anfringere to wind,
bend; an-, for amb- + fractus, p. p. of frangere to break:
cf. F. anfractueux.]
Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous;
as, the anfractuous spires of a born. --
{An*frac"tu*ous*ness}, n.
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