squiggly
- adjective
- /ˈskwɪɡli/
- I'm seeing a lot of squiggly lines and dots in no particular pattern.
- squiggly lines
I'm seeing a lot of squiggly lines and dots in no particular pattern.
- I'm seeing a lot of squiggly lines and dots in no particular pattern.
- So I'm going to briefly summarize where the picture is, show you very, very quickly just what squiggly lines look like.
- And it's just this incredibly squiggly line where there are setbacks.
Examples
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And it makes your tummy tickle and get all squiggly.
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A circle, a square, a star, three squiggly lines, a cross, and a figure-eight.
Fiction book (1994) -
And it was too squiggly for my eyes to be able to track.
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And they have really cool squiggly letters and you can spell them all.
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The lines are all squiggly.
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Soon it was crowded with squiggly white lines.
Fiction book (2001) -
LeRoi looked at the map and asked, "Don't all these squiggly lines mean mountains?"
Fiction book (2001) -
The baby uses the wax to draw squiggly lines on a piece of paper.
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The focus group saw the little squiggly line at the bottom of the screen.
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The map of snowmobile routes has many more squiggly lines than the road map does.
Synonyms
Having soft, regular curves like small waves, not straight
A road or story with many bends and sudden changes
A shape or movement with many small bends like a worm
Having curved lines or patterns that twist and flow
Having curls or a shape that turns when moved
Moving with small twisting movements like a worm
Having smooth, curved shapes like soft waves
Having a long, winding shape like a snake
Having many curves like a winding road
Antonyms
How Wavy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Squiggly comes from the playful word squiggle, which copies the look of a quick, twisting mark and is like the common word wiggle, which means 'move from side to side'. So, squiggly means 'wavy' or 'curving', and you can picture a line that 'wiggles' across the page.