| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving side to side |
| Synonyms: | askew, awry, bent, crinkled, crooked, devious, diagonal, erratic, fluctuating, inclined, indirect, irregular, jagged, meandering, oblique, oscillating, rambling, serrated, sinuous, sloping, snaking, tortuous, transverse, twisted, twisting, undulating, waggling, winding |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | askew |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked |
| Synonyms: | askance, askant, aslant, awry, bent, buckled, catawampus, cockeyed, crookedly, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique, obliquely, off-center, slanted, slanting, to one side, topsy-turvey, turned, twisted, yaw ways, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | awry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off course; amiss |
| Synonyms: | afield, askance, askew, aslant, astray, badly, bent, cockeyed, crooked, curved, slanting, turned, wrong, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | ok, on course |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve |
| Synonyms: | angle, arc, bending, bow, corner, crook, curvation, curvature, deflection, deviation, flection, flexure, hook, lean, loop, round, sag, shift, tack, tilt, turn, twist, yaw, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
| Synonyms: | angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | crook |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, angle |
| Synonyms: | bow, curve, flex, fork, hook, meander, notch, round, slither, snake, wind, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent, angled |
| Synonyms: | agee, anfractuous, angular, asymmetric, awry, bowed, catawampus, circuitous, cockeyed, contorted, crippled, curved, curving, deformed, deviating, devious, disfigured, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, incurving, indirect, irregular, kinky, knurly, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, not straight, oblique, out of shape, rambling, roundabout, screwy, serpentine, sinuous, skewed, slanted, snaky, spiral, tilted, topsy-turvy, tortile, tortuous, twisted, twisting, uneven, warped, winding, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | traverse an area |
| Synonyms: | bridge, cruise, cut across, extend over, ford, go across, meet, move across, navigate, overpass, pass over, ply, sail, span, transverse, voyage, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | curl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, loop |
| Synonyms: | buckle, coil, contort, convolute, corkscrew, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crook, curve, entwine, fold, form into ringlets, frizz, indent, kink, lap, meander, ringlet, ripple, roll, scallop, snake, spiral, swirl, turn, twine, twirl, twist, undulate, wave, wind, wreathe, writhe, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straighten |