The rotting shanty town was not too distant from the grandiose temples of serpentine.
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Serpentine
//ˈsɜː.pənˌtaɪn//
Synonyms for "serpentine" (270 found)
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Strong matches (81)
curvycutedeceitfuldecurrentdeepdeep-laiddefluentdemoniacdemonicdepartingdesigningdesultorydeviantdeviatingdeviativedeviatorydevilishdeviousdiabolicdiabolical
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diffluentdigressivediplomaticdiscursiveeellikeerranterraticevilexcursivefelinefiendishflexuoseflexuousflowingfluentfluxionalfluxivefoxyfroggygeosynclinalgnominiousguilefulgulfygushingharlequinincurvateincurvatedincurvedincurvingindentedindirectingeniousinsidiousinventiveinvoluteinvolutedinvolutionalirisjaguarknowinglabyrinthineleopardlizardlikelumbriciformmachiavellianmachiavellicmarblemazymeandermeanderingmeandrousmephistophelianmoirenacrenotchedocelotophidianout-of-the-way
Adjective(3 words)
Related words (135)
pawkypeacockplanetaryplottingpoliticpouringprofluentracingrainbowramblingreadyrecurvaterecurvatedrecurvedrecurvingrepentreptantreptilereptilelikereptilian
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reptiliformreptiloidresourcefulrivoserivuloseroundaboutrovingruffledrunningrushingsatanicsauriansaw-toothedsawtoothscallopschemingscoredscrewserpentiformserpentileserpentlikeserpentoidserrateserratedserriedsharpshiftingshiftyshrewdsigmoidsinuatesinuosesinuousslickslinkslipperyslitheringsluggishslysmoothsnakesnake-shapedsnakelikesnakingsnakysneakysophisticalspectrumstealthystonestrategicstraystreamingsubtilesubtlesupplesurgingsurgyswervingswirltacticaltidaltoadishtoothedtorsionaltortiletortoise shelltortuoustrickishtricksytrickyturnturningtwinetwirltwisttwistingtwistyundirectedundulantunhallowedvagrantvariegationveeringvermicularvermiculatevermiformviperiformviperishviperlikeviperoidviperousviperyvorticalvulpinewanderingwarywavywhirlwhorlwhorledwilywindwindingwormwormlikewreathlikewreathywringzigzag
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95 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀφιοειδής adj (having the form of a snake)
Arabic
1 entries- ثُعْبَانِيّ adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
Belarusian
2 entries- змяі́ны adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- зьмяі́ны adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
Bulgarian
4 entries- зми́йски adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- змиеви́ден adj (having the form of a snake)
- криволи́чещ adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
- лъкату́шен adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
Catalan
2 entries- anguiforme adj (having the form of a snake)
- serpentina noun (mineral)
Czech
1 entries- hadí adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
Dutch
3 entries- rddyufiy adj (having the form of a snake)
- tyfit adj (having the form of a snake)
- serpentijn noun (early form of cannon)
Finnish
4 entries- juonikas adj (of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible — see also crafty, deceitful)
- kiemurteleva adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
- käärmemäinen adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- käärmemäinen adj (having the form of a snake)
French
3 entries- anguiforme adj (having the form of a snake)
- serpentin adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- serpentine noun (mineral)
German
4 entries- Schlangen adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- gewunden adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
- schlangenförmig adj (having the form of a snake)
- sich schlängelnd adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
Greek
1 entries- σερπεντίνης noun (mineral)
Hindi
1 entries- ज़हर मोहरा noun (mineral)
Hungarian
1 entries- szerpentin noun (mineral)
Irish
1 entries- nathairín noun (mineral)
Italian
2 entries- serpentino adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- serpentino noun (mineral)
Japanese
1 entries- 蛇紋石 noun (mineral)
Latin
2 entries- serpentīnus adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- ophites noun (mineral)
Macedonian
4 entries- зми́ски adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- зми́јулест adj (having the form of a snake)
- змијо́виден adj (having the form of a snake)
- кри́вулест adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
Manx
2 entries- aarnieuagh adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- aarnieuagh adj (having the form of a snake)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ییلان طاشی noun (mineral)
Polish
1 entries- wężowy adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
Portuguese
4 entries- anguiforme adj (having the form of a snake)
- ofídico adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- serpentiforme adj (having the form of a snake)
- serpentino adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
Romanian
1 entries- serpentin noun (mineral)
Russian
4 entries- змееви́дный adj (having the form of a snake)
- змееви́дный adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
- змееобра́зный adj (having the form of a snake)
- змееподо́бный adj (having the form of a snake)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zmìjin adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- zmȉjast adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- зми̏јаст adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- змѝјин adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
Slovak
1 entries- hadí adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
Slovene
2 entries- kačast adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- kačji adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
Spanish
4 entries- serpenteante adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
- serpentino adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- serpentino adj (curving in alternate directions — see also sinuous)
- serpentina noun (mineral)
Swedish
1 entries- serpentin noun (mineral)
Turkish
2 entries- serpantin noun (mineral)
- yılan taşı noun (mineral)
Ukrainian
3 entries- змії́ний adj (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes)
- змійови́к noun (mineral)
- серпенти́н noun (mineral)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Life is like a river with a source and a mouth. Each of us has our own river. One person may have one that is twisting and serpentine, with shallow water in the shoals, so one must plod, not float. Another's is stormy, seething, carrying water furiously, flying one hundred thousand miles until it meets another river and loses its impetuosity and noisiness, and then calmly moves forward to the mouth. There are also streams, short and transparent, like the life of a baby.
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A few yards below the brow of the hill on which he paused a team of horses made its appearance, having reached the place by dint of half an hour's serpentine progress from the bottom of the immense declivity.
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Serpentine is a greenish rock, a silicate of magnesia, in which there is sometimes from 30 to 40 per cent of magnesia.
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