sinuous, windy; curving; circuitous; tortuous
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Anfractuous Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutWinding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.
anfractuous
\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.
Adjective
1. full of twists and turns; "anfractuous cliffs"
(similar) crooked
