The Collaborative Dictionary

Wavy \Wav"y\, a.

Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves. "The wavy seas." --Chapman. [1913 Webster]

Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. [1913 Webster] Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. --Prior. [1913 Webster]

(Bot.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

wavy adj

1 in waves

2 having wrinkles or waves [syn: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavelike] [also: waviest, wavier]

Moby Thesaurus

adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, bent, billowing, billowy, capricious, changeable, changeful, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, geosynclinal, giddy, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mercurial, moody, rambling, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, restless, rolling, roving, scatterbrained, serpentine, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, sinuous, spasmodic, spineless, surgy, tortuous, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulating, undulative, undulatory, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes with: -eɪvi

Adjective

1. Rising or swelling in waves.
2. Full of waves.
3. Moving to and fro; undulating.
4. Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
5. botany of a margin Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.