Synonyms for serpentine
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Sinuous — curving in alternate directions; sinuous
sinuous, winding, tortuous, curving, curved, meandering, circuitous, crooked, flexuous, anfractuous, anguinine, devious, ambagious
2. Snaky
snaky, subtle, snakelike, anguine, anguineous, ophiomorphous dated
Other
zigzag, flamboyant, ophidian, vermicular, anguiform, serpentiform, serpentlike
Definitions
- adj. 1
Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.
The serpentine path through the mountains was narrow and dangerous.
- adj. 2
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
Example sentences
- winding I'm getting tired of driving on this winding road.
- tortuous The five-year civil war has seen plenty of tortuous battlefield ups and downs.
- sinuous The hikers followed a sinuous path that twisted through the forest.
By length
- 5 letters
- snaky
- 6 letters
- subtle2, curved1, zigzag2
- 7 letters
- winding2, crooked2, curving2, devious3, sinuous2, anguine
- 8 letters
- tortuous3, ophidian, flexuous
- 9 letters
- snakelike2, anguinine, ambagious, anguiform
- 10 letters
- flamboyant3, meandering4, circuitous4, vermicular, anguineous
- 11 letters
- anfractuous, serpentlike
- 12 letters
- serpentiform
- 13 letters
- ophiomorphous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (subtle2 = 2 syllables).