Exact Match:
- akimbo
- with hands on hips and elbows extending outward; "she stood there akimbo"
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- proudly
collapse - in a proud manner; "he walked proudly into town" related words >
- Olympianly,
- aloofly,
- arrogantly,
- condescendingly,
- contemptuously,
- contumeliously,
- disdainfully,
- elaborately,
- elegantly,
- en grand seigneur,
- erectly,
- extravagantly,
- gloriously,
- grandiosely,
- grandly,
- haughtily,
- imperiously,
- imposingly,
- impressively,
- independently,
- like a lord,
- loftily,
- luxuriously,
- magisterially,
- magnificently,
- majestically,
- nobly,
- patronizingly,
- pridefully,
- self-confidently,
- self-reliantly,
- self-respectingly,
- splendaciously,
- splendidly,
- splendiferously,
- sumptuously,
- superbly,
- superciliously,
- toploftily,
- with arms akimbo,
- with head erect,
- with pride
- loftily
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- in a lofty manner; "she bore herself loftily" related words >
- Olympianly,
- aloofly,
- arrogantly,
- bombastically,
- condescendingly,
- contemptuously,
- contumeliously,
- disdainfully,
- flatulently,
- grandiloquently,
- grandiosely,
- grandly,
- gravely,
- haughtily,
- imperiously,
- imposingly,
- magisterially,
- magniloquently,
- majestically,
- nobly,
- ostentatiously,
- patronizingly,
- pompously,
- pretentiously,
- proudly,
- regally,
- royally,
- sedately,
- showily,
- soberly,
- solemnly,
- stately,
- stiltedly,
- superciliously,
- toploftily,
- tumidly,
- turgidly,
- venerably,
- windily,
- with arms akimbo,
- with dignity,
- with flying colors,
- worthily
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- akimbo,
- angular,
- at bay,
- aux abois,
- bent,
- between two fires,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- endangered,
- forked,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- hooked,
- imperiled,
- in a corner,
- in a predicament,
- in danger,
- in desperate case,
- in extremis,
- in jeopardy,
- jagged,
- jeopardized,
- knee-shaped,
- on the spot,
- pointed,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- threatened,
- treed,
- up a stump,
- up a tree,
- zigzag
- angular
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- having angles or an angular shape
- measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle; "angular momentum" related words >
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- akimbo,
- bent,
- bony,
- cornered,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- crude,
- forked,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- gaunt,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- hooked,
- jagged,
- knee-shaped,
- lank,
- lanky,
- pointed,
- raw,
- rawboned,
- rough,
- roughhewn,
- rude,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- scraggy,
- scrawny,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- skinny,
- spare,
- undressed,
- unfashioned,
- unfinished,
- unpolished,
- unworked,
- weedy,
- zigzag
- Y-shaped,
- akimbo,
- angular,
- arboreal,
- arborescent,
- arboriform,
- bent,
- biforked,
- bifurcate,
- bifurcated,
- branched,
- branching,
- branchlike,
- cornered,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- dendriform,
- dendritic,
- forked,
- forking,
- forklike,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- hooked,
- jagged,
- knee-shaped,
- pointed,
- pronged,
- ramous,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- tree-shaped,
- treelike,
- tridentlike,
- trifurcate,
- trifurcated,
- zigzag
- V-shaped,
- akimbo,
- angular,
- arboreal,
- arborescent,
- arboriform,
- bent,
- biforked,
- bifurcate,
- bifurcated,
- branched,
- branching,
- branchlike,
- cornered,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- dendriform,
- dendritic,
- forked,
- forking,
- forklike,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- hooked,
- jagged,
- knee-shaped,
- pointed,
- pronged,
- ramous,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- tree-shaped,
- treelike,
- tridentlike,
- trifurcate,
- trifurcated,
- zigzag
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- akimbo,
- angular,
- arboreal,
- arborescent,
- arboriform,
- bent,
- biforked,
- bifurcate,
- bifurcated,
- bisected,
- branched,
- branching,
- branchlike,
- cleft,
- cloven,
- cornered,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- dendriform,
- dendritic,
- dichotomous,
- dimidiate,
- divided,
- forking,
- forklike,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- halved,
- hooked,
- jagged,
- knee-shaped,
- pointed,
- pronged,
- ramified,
- ramous,
- riven,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- split,
- tree-shaped,
- treelike,
- tridentlike,
- trifurcate,
- trifurcated,
- zigzag
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- akimbo,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angular,
- arboreal,
- arborescent,
- arboriform,
- bend,
- bent,
- biforked,
- bifurcate,
- bifurcated,
- branch,
- branch out,
- branched,
- branching,
- branchlike,
- cornered,
- crank,
- crook,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- dendriform,
- dendritic,
- divaricate,
- elbow,
- fork,
- forked,
- forking,
- forklike,
- furcal,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- hook,
- hooked,
- jagged,
- knee-shaped,
- pointed,
- pronged,
- ramify,
- ramous,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- stem,
- swerve,
- tree-shaped,
- treelike,
- tridentlike,
- trifurcate,
- trifurcated,
- veer,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- akimbo,
- angular,
- battlemented,
- bent,
- chopped,
- cornered,
- corrugated,
- cragged,
- craggy,
- crenate,
- crenated,
- crenellated,
- crenulate,
- crinkled,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- crumpled,
- dentate,
- dentated,
- embrasured,
- erose,
- forked,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- gashed,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- gravelly,
- harsh,
- hooked,
- incised,
- indented,
- ironbound,
- jagged,
- jaggy,
- knee-shaped,
- lacerate,
- lacerated,
- nicked,
- notched,
- pointed,
- ragged,
- rockbound,
- rocky,
- rugged,
- rugose,
- rugous,
- sawlike,
- sawtooth,
- scalloped,
- scored,
- scragged,
- scraggly,
- scraggy,
- serrate,
- serrated,
- serrulated,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- snagged,
- snaggled,
- snaggy,
- stony,
- toothed,
- wrinkled,
- zigzag
- Roman-nosed,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- absorbed in,
- addicted,
- addicted to,
- akimbo,
- angular,
- aquiline,
- aquiline-nosed,
- beak-nosed,
- beak-shaped,
- beaked,
- bent,
- bill-like,
- bill-shaped,
- billed,
- caught up in,
- clawlike,
- cornered,
- crookbilled,
- crooked,
- crooknosed,
- crotched,
- dependent,
- dependent on,
- down-curving,
- enmeshed in,
- entangled in,
- far-gone,
- forked,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- habituated,
- habitue,
- hamate,
- hamiform,
- hamulate,
- hooked on,
- hooklike,
- immersed in,
- implicated in,
- in a rut,
- involved in,
- jagged,
- knee-shaped,
- never free from,
- parrot-nosed,
- pointed,
- rhamphoid,
- rostrate,
- rostriform,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- spaced out,
- submerged in,
- tied up in,
- unciform,
- uncinate,
- unguiform,
- used to,
- wrapped up in,
- zigzag
- serrate
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- notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
- make saw-toothed or jag the edge of; "serrate the edges of the teeth" related words >
- V-shaped,
- Vandyke,
- Y-shaped,
- akimbo,
- angular,
- battlemented,
- bent,
- blaze,
- chop,
- chopped,
- cornered,
- corrugated,
- cragged,
- craggy,
- crenate,
- crenated,
- crenellate,
- crenellated,
- crenulate,
- crimp,
- crinkled,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- crumpled,
- cut,
- dentate,
- dentated,
- embrasured,
- erose,
- forked,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- gash,
- gashed,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- gravelly,
- harsh,
- hooked,
- incise,
- incised,
- indent,
- indented,
- ironbound,
- jag,
- jagged,
- jaggy,
- knee-shaped,
- knurl,
- lacerate,
- lacerated,
- machicolate,
- mill,
- nick,
- nicked,
- notch,
- notched,
- picot,
- pink,
- pointed,
- ragged,
- rockbound,
- rocky,
- rugged,
- rugose,
- rugous,
- saw-toothed,
- sawlike,
- sawtooth,
- scallop,
- scalloped,
- scarify,
- score,
- scored,
- scotch,
- scragged,
- scraggly,
- scraggy,
- serrated,
- serrulated,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- slash,
- snagged,
- snaggled,
- snaggy,
- stony,
- tooth,
- toothed,
- wrinkled,
- zigzag
- jagged
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- having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" related words >
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- akimbo,
- angular,
- asperous,
- battlemented,
- bent,
- boozy,
- broken,
- broken off,
- canned,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changing,
- chipped,
- chopped,
- chopped-off,
- choppy,
- cornered,
- corrugated,
- cragged,
- craggy,
- crenate,
- crenated,
- crenellated,
- crenulate,
- crinkled,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- crumpled,
- decousu,
- dentate,
- dentated,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- different,
- disconnected,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- disguised,
- disjunctive,
- disorderly,
- divaricate,
- divergent,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- drunk,
- embrasured,
- episodic,
- erose,
- erratic,
- fitful,
- forked,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- gashed,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- gravelly,
- harsh,
- herky-jerky,
- hooked,
- impulsive,
- incised,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indented,
- inebriated,
- intermittent,
- interrupted,
- ironbound,
- irregular,
- jaggy,
- jerky,
- knee-shaped,
- lacerate,
- lacerated,
- mercurial,
- motley,
- muddled,
- mutable,
- nicked,
- nonconformist,
- noncontinuous,
- nonlinear,
- nonsequential,
- nonserial,
- nonstandard,
- nonuniform,
- notched,
- parenthetic,
- patchy,
- pixilated,
- plastered,
- pluralistic,
- pointed,
- ragged,
- rockbound,
- rocky,
- rough,
- rugged,
- rugose,
- rugous,
- saw-toothed,
- sawlike,
- sawtooth,
- scabrous,
- scalloped,
- scored,
- scragged,
- scraggly,
- scraggy,
- scrappy,
- serrate,
- serrated,
- serrulated,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- snagged,
- snaggled,
- snaggy,
- snatchy,
- spasmodic,
- spiked,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- stony,
- suspended,
- toothed,
- unconnected,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unjoined,
- unlevel,
- unorthodox,
- unsmooth,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsuccessive,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- variable,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- wavering,
- wrinkled,
- zigzag
- crooked
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- having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Roman-nosed,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- akimbo,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- anamorphous,
- angular,
- aquiline,
- aquiline-nosed,
- artful,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- askewgee,
- asquint,
- asymmetric,
- awry,
- beak-nosed,
- beak-shaped,
- beaked,
- bending,
- bendy,
- bent,
- bill-like,
- bill-shaped,
- billed,
- bowed,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- chevronwise,
- chevrony,
- circuitous,
- clawlike,
- cockeyed,
- conscienceless,
- contorted,
- cornered,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crafty,
- crankled,
- crazy,
- criminal,
- crookbilled,
- crooknosed,
- crotched,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- cunning,
- curving,
- curvy,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deformed,
- deviative,
- devious,
- disfigured,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- distorted,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- down-curving,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- flexuous,
- forked,
- fraudulent,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- gnarled,
- hairpin,
- hamate,
- hamiform,
- hamulate,
- hooked,
- hooklike,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- illegal,
- illicit,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- knee-shaped,
- labyrinthine,
- lopsided,
- lying,
- meandering,
- misshapen,
- nonsymmetric,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- one-sided,
- parrot-nosed,
- perfidious,
- perverse,
- pointed,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- rhamphoid,
- rostrate,
- rostriform,
- rotten,
- roundabout,
- ruthless,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serpentine,
- serrate,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- skew,
- skew-jawed,
- skewed,
- slaunchways,
- slippery,
- snaky,
- snide,
- sprung,
- squinting,
- staggered,
- suspicious,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- two-faced,
- unciform,
- uncinate,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unguiform,
- unlawful,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- unsymmetric,
- untruthful,
- wamper-jawed,
- warped,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wrong,
- wry,
- yaw-ways,
- zigzag,
- zigzaggy,
- zigzagways
- pointed
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- direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant; "a pointed critique"; "a pointed allusion to what was going on"; "another pointed look in their direction"
- having a point related words >
- Attic,
- Spartan,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- accented,
- accentuated,
- acicular,
- aciform,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- akimbo,
- allegorical,
- angular,
- aphoristic,
- apiculate,
- aposiopestic,
- arresting,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- barbed,
- bent,
- biting,
- brief,
- brilliant,
- brusque,
- clever,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- conspicuous,
- contracted,
- cornered,
- cornuted,
- crisp,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- curt,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- cut,
- cutting,
- decided,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- docked,
- droll,
- elliptic,
- emphasized,
- emphatic,
- epigrammatic,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facetious,
- figurative,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forked,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- funny,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- gnomic,
- hebetate,
- hispid,
- hooked,
- horned,
- horny,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- in red letters,
- incisive,
- indicative,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- italicized,
- jagged,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- knee-shaped,
- laconic,
- marked,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- mordant,
- mucronate,
- muricate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- nimble-witted,
- outstanding,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointy,
- positive,
- pregnant,
- prominent,
- pronged,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- punctuated,
- pungent,
- quick-witted,
- rapier-like,
- readable,
- referential,
- remarkable,
- reserved,
- salient,
- salt,
- salty,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- scintillating,
- sententious,
- serrate,
- serrated,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- sharp-pointed,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- signal,
- significant,
- significative,
- smart,
- sparkling,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- sprightly,
- starred,
- stressed,
- striking,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tapered,
- tapering,
- telling,
- terse,
- tight,
- tined,
- to the point,
- toothed,
- transferred,
- trenchant,
- truncated,
- unbated,
- underlined,
- underscored,
- unmistakable,
- whimsical,
- witty,
- zigzag
- zigzag
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- an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- having short sharp turns or angles
- in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"
- travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside" related words >
- L,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- aberrancy,
- aberrant,
- aberration,
- aberrative,
- akimbo,
- alternate,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angular,
- apex,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- back and fill,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- bend,
- bendy,
- bent,
- bias,
- bifurcate,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- branch,
- branching off,
- cant,
- chevron,
- chevronwise,
- chevrony,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumvention,
- coin,
- come and go,
- corner,
- cornered,
- crank,
- crankiness,
- crankle,
- crankled,
- crook,
- crooked,
- crookedness,
- crotched,
- crotchet,
- curve,
- curvy,
- declination,
- defense mechanism,
- deflect,
- deflection,
- departing,
- departure,
- desultory,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- deviousness,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- digression,
- digressive,
- discursion,
- discursive,
- disperse,
- distort,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dodge,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- duck,
- ebb and flow,
- elbow,
- ell,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocation,
- errant,
- errantry,
- erratic,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- excursion,
- excursive,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- fork,
- forked,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- furcation,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- getting around,
- hairpin,
- hitch and hike,
- hook,
- hooked,
- indirect,
- indirection,
- inflection,
- jagged,
- jink,
- knee,
- knee-shaped,
- labyrinthine,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nook,
- obliquity,
- out-of-the-way,
- pass and repass,
- pererration,
- planetary,
- point,
- pointed,
- prevention,
- pull,
- quoin,
- rambling,
- reciprocate,
- refract,
- refraining,
- ride and tie,
- roving,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- scatter,
- seesaw,
- serpentine,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- skew,
- slant,
- slip,
- snaky,
- stagger,
- staggered,
- stray,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swing,
- swinging,
- switchback,
- tack,
- teeter,
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- the runaround,
- to-and-fro,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
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- undirected,
- vagrant,
- variation,
- veer,
- veering,
- vertex,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wax and wane,
- wibble-wabble,
- wigwag,
- winding,
- yaw,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzaggery,
- zigzaggy,
- zigzagways
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