anfractuous
English
Etymology
Late Latin anfractuosus, from Latin anfractus (“bend, curve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ænˈfɹæktjʊəs/
Adjective
anfractuous (comparative more anfractuous, superlative most anfractuous)
- sinuous, twisty, winding.
- 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age:
- It was just that the story was anfractuous.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest:
- Shy, iridescent, coltish, pelvically anfractuous, amply busted, given to diffident movements
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- craggy, rugged, coarse, rough, uneven.
- 1920, T. S. Eliot, Poems, A. A. Knopf:
- Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks / Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
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