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zigzag

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"

Synonyms:

• 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,
• teeter-totter,
• the runaround,
• to-and-fro,
• turn,
• turning,
• twist,
• twisting,
• twisty,
• undirected,
• vagrant,
• variation,
• veer,
• veering,
• vertex,
• wandering,
• warp,
• wax and wane,
• wibble-wabble,
• wigwag,
• winding,
• yaw,
• zag,
• zig,
• zigzaggery,
• zigzaggy,
• zigzagways