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# wavy

«wavy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Having curves like waves; not straight: wavy hair, a wavy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (wavy, wavier, waviest)

### meaning for a pupil

Having curves like waves; not straight: wavy hair, a wavy line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wavy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In art and maths: draw a wavy line; in science: sound and light are shown as wavy lines on diagrams. In everyday life: wavy hair, a wavy pattern. Tells the reader the shape goes up and down smoothly.

### examples

- She has long wavy hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wavy/#x1)
- Draw a wavy line under the mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wavy/#x2)
- The snake left a wavy track in the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wavy/#x3)
- The flag had a wavy pattern of blue and white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wavy/#x4)
- On the graph, the sound looked like a wavy line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wavy/#x5)
- His writing went wavy when the bus bumped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wavy/#x6)

### note

Spelling: wave → wavy (drop the e). Comparative wavier, superlative waviest. Opposite: straight. A wavy line is not the same as a zigzag (which has sharp corners).

### In the corpora

- [As sugar dissolves you can see wavy streams, because the sugary water bends light differently from plain water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/16/)
- [Cardboard looks weak, but its wavy middle layer makes it strong, like the arches under a bridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wavy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wavy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.