Wavy

Definition: Wavy

Wavy

Adjective

1. In waves.

2. Having wrinkles or waves.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wavy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Wavy

Convolution

Adjective: convoluted; winding, twisted; Verb: tortile, tortive; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid; sigmoid, sigmoidal; spiriferous, spiroid;

Crosswords: Wavy

And lots of wavy hair like Liberace ("Mr. Sandman"; performing artist: The Chordettes)

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Books

• Hair Rules: The Ultimate Hair-Care Guide for Women With Kinky, Curly, or Wavy Hair (reference)

• The Mole Sisters and the Wavy Wheat (Mole Sisters) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Wavy Gravy [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Wüsthof Culinar 10-Inch Super Slicer Wavy Serrated Knife (reference)

• Freud 85-033 Wavy Joint Router Bit with 1/2" Shank (reference)

• Porter-Cable 43180 Wavy Edge Router Bit, 1/4" Shank, Carbide-Tipped (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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USS Helena (CL-50) firing during the night bombardment, as seen from USS Honolulu (CL-48). Gunfire causes wavy pattern of tracers. Credit: NAVY.

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The turtle entered a dust road and jerked itself along, drawing a wavy shallow trench in the dust with its shell

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Health

For example, straight lines may appear crooked or wavy, or a blind spot may appear in the field of vision. (references)

An early symptom of wet AMD is that straight lines appear wavy. This happens because the newly formed blood vessels leak fluid under the macula. (references)

You will be asked to cover one eye and stare at a black dot in the center of the grid. While staring at the dot, you may notice that the straight lines in the pattern appear wavy to you. You may notice that some of the lines are missing. (references)

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Expressions using "wavy": be wavy ♦ sinuate sinuous wavy ♦ thick wavy hair ♦ wavy figure ♦ wavy grain ♦ wavy hair ♦ wavy haired ♦ wavy line. Additional references.

Beginning with "wavy": wavy-bladed, wavy-coated, wavy-coloured, wavy-edged, wavy-grained, wavy-leaved aster.

Albanian

me onde, i valëzuar (ripply, undulate), i dallgëzuar (ripply, undulate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موجي (wavelike), ‏متموج (crisp, crispy, rolling, undulant, undulate), ‏مائج (adverse), ‏تموجي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

развяващ се (flyaway, flying), рифелован, къдрав (crimpy, crisp, curly, fleecy, frizzly, frizzy, ringleted, waved), вълнообразен (flexous, repand, undulant, undulating), вълнист (curly, flamboyant, undulant, undulate, undulating, waved), олюляващ се (staggering, tottering), на вълни (waved). (various references)

Chinese 

波浪 (Wave). (various references)

Czech

zvlnìný (corrugated, rough, undulated), vlnitý (corrugated, crimpy, curly, rolling). (various references)

Danish

boelget (corrugated). (various references)

Dutch

wallig, gegolfd (corrugated). (various references)

Farsi 

پرموج , پرچین وشکن (Crispy), پرتلاطم , متموج , جنبش بعقب وجلو. (various references)

Finnish

poimuileva, kihara (a curly, curl, lock), aaltomainen (undulating, wave-like), aaltoinen, aaltoileva (rolling, surging, swaying). (various references)

French

ondulé (wavy figure, wavy grain). (various references)

German

wellig (billowy, crinkly, kinky, rolling, undulating, uneven, warped, wavily). (various references)

Greek 

κυματώδησ (billowy, choppy, surfy, surgy, undulate), κυματιστόσ, κυματιστός, κυματοειδής (corrugated, ogee), σπαστός. (various references)

Hebrew 

גלי (fluctuant, undulant). (various references)

Hungarian

hullámos (crisp, crispy, lumpy, undulate, undulated, undulatory, waved). (various references)

Indonesian

bergelombangan, bergelombang (billowy, bumpy, surge). (various references)

Italian

ondulato (corrugated, rolling, undate, undulating, undulatory, wavily). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

縮れる (to be curled, to be wavy), 波線 (wavy line), 波打つ髪 (wavy hair). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なみうつかみ (wavy hair), はせん (a shipwreck, dotted line, small change, wavy line), ちぢれる (to be curled, to be wavy). (various references)

Korean 

파도치는. (various references)

Manx

tonnagh (billowy, undulating, undulatory, waved, waveswept). (various references)

Pig Latin

avyway.(various references)

Portuguese

ondulado (corrugated, crimp, downy, fuzzy, ripply, rolling, undulate, undulated, waved). (various references)

Romanian

unduios (undulating), ondulat (curly, ridgy, sinuous, waved, winding), cu valuri, încreţit (crimpy, curly, ridgy, rippled). (various references)

Russian 

волнистый (curly, ripply, squiggly, undulate, waved, wiggly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

valovit (corrugated, undulating), talasast (billowy, corrugated, curly, rolling, sinuous, undulate, undulating, waved). (various references)

Spanish

ondulado (corrugated, ripply, rolling, undulate, undulated, uneven). (various references)

Swedish

vågig (having a ripple, rippled), vågformig. (various references)

Turkish

titreyen (atremble, quaking, shaking, thrilling, trembling, tremulous, wavering), titrek (doddering, doddery, faltering, flickering, plangent, quavery, shaking, shaky, shivery, tipsy, trembling, tremulous, wavering, wobbly), titreşen (flickering, oscillating, pulsating, vibrant, vibrating, vibratory, wavering), hareli (cloudy, cloudyly, damascene, moire), dalgalı (alternating, billowy, choppy, corrugated, flowing, restless, rough, undate, undated, undulated, undulating, waved), dalga dalga olan, dalga şeklinde (undate, undated). (various references)

Ukrainian

рифлений (corrugated, fluted, grooved, ribbed), хвилястий (anfractuose, billowy, crimpy, ripply, sinuous, undulate, undulated, waved), кучерявий (crimpy, curling, curly, frizzly, frizzy, fuzzy, kinky, waved), гофрований (corrugated, frilled, puckered), мінливий (capricious, changeable, changeful, chatoyant, chequered, choppy, floating, inconsistent, interchangeable, mutable, non-permanent, skittish, stayless, uncertain, vagrant, variable, varied, wanton, wayward), буремний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

gợn sóng; giập giờn. (various references)

Welsh

tonnog (billowy). (various references)

crispans. (various references)

flamboyant. (various references)

Misspellings

"Wavy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avy, awv, eavy, gavy, pavy, ravy, Wady, waey, wagy, waky, waty, wavit, wavs, wavw, wawy, waya, wayb, wayi, waym, wayo, wazy, weavey, weevy, wevi, wify, wiv, wivi, wivy, woovy, wovie, wovy, wv. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: vaw, way, yaw.

-2 letters: aw, ay, ya.

+1 letter: wavey.

+2 letters: wavery, waveys, wavily.

+4 letters: avowably, avowedly, driveway, everyway, giveaway, overwary.

+5 letters: driveways, giveaways, overweary.