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coiled
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coiled
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curled up |
| Synonyms: | helicoid, tortile |
| Antonyms: | uncoiled |
| Main Entry: | curly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | looping, forming ringlets |
| Synonyms: | coiled, convoluted, corkscrew, crimped, crimpy, crinkling, crinkly, crisp, curled, curling, frizzed, frizzy, fuzzy, kinky, looped, permed, spiralled, waved, waving, wavy, winding, wound |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | kinky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | twisted |
| Synonyms: | coiled, crimped, curled, curly, frizzled, frizzy, knotted, matted, matty, rolled, tangled |
| Notes: | quirky means strikingly unconventional or given to idiosyncrasies; kinky means showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes - or in small tight curls |
| Antonyms: | straight, unkinked, untwisted |
| Main Entry: | round |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ball-shaped; semicircular area |
| Synonyms: | annular, arced, arched, arciform, bent, bowed, bulbous, circular, coiled, curled, curved, curvilinear, cylindrical, discoid, disk-shaped, domical, egg-shaped, elliptical, globose, globular, looped, orbed, orbicular, orbiculate, oval, ringed, rotund, rounded, spherical, spheroid, spiral |
| Main Entry: | spiral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curling, winding |
| Synonyms: | circling, circular, circumvoluted, cochlear, coiled, corkscrew, curled, helical, helicoid, radial, rolled, screw-shaped, scrolled, tendrillar, tortile, voluted, whorled, wound |
| Antonyms: | straight, uncurling, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | knotted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tied |
| Synonyms: | banded, bent, braided, bunched, clinched, clumped, clustered, coiled, engaged, entangled, fastened, gnarled, hitched, intertwined, knotty, lashed, lassoed, linked, looped, meshed, perplexed, seized, snagged, snarled, spliced, tangled, twisted, warped, whirled |
| Antonyms: | free, loose, separate |
| Main Entry: | rolled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made into a roll |
| Synonyms: | arched, bent, bowed, coiled, convoluted, curled, curved, folded, furled, involute, spiraled, twisted, voluted, wound |
| Antonyms: | spread, straight, unrolled |
| Main Entry: | wavy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undulating |
| Synonyms: | bumpy, coiled, curly, curved, flexuous, plangent, rolling, sinuate, sinuous, snaky, squiggly, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulatory, unstable, vermiculate, waving, winding |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | twisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knotty |
| Synonyms: | awry, bent, braided, coiled, complicated, contorted, convoluted, crooked, curled, gnarled, intricate, involved, knurly, perverted, tangled, tortile, tortuous, wound, wry |
| Antonyms: | untwisted |
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