What is another word for zigzag?
1179 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ zˈɪɡzaɡ], [ zˈɪɡzaɡ], [ z_ˈɪ_ɡ_z_a_ɡ]
Zigzag is a term used to describe a pattern that consists of a series of sharp turns or sudden changes in direction. Some common synonyms for zigzag include meander, serpent, snaky, wind, twist, turn, bend, and curve. Other words that can be used to describe zigzagging motions include squiggle, waver, undulate, oscillate, and veer. These terms can be used to describe a range of movements, from the erratic movements of a snake to the gentle curves of a winding road. Whatever the context, there are many words available that can help you to describe a zigzag pattern in a creative and engaging way.
Synonyms for Zigzag:
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adj.
• convoluted • crooked- Agee ,
- Incurving ,
- Knurly ,
- Tortile ,
- askew ,
- mis-shapen ,
- out of shape ,
- screwy ,
- topsyturvy ,
- warped .
- Bevelled ,
- Undulatory ,
- diagonal ,
- inclined ,
- leaning ,
- loxic ,
- oblique ,
- skewed ,
- slanted ,
- straggling ,
- thrawn ,
- tilted ,
- vibratory .
- Undulating ,
- alternating ,
- back and forth ,
- back-and-forth ,
- fluctuating ,
- oscillating ,
- pulsating ,
- teeter-totter ,
- throbbing ,
- vacillating ,
- vibrating .
- bi furcate ,
- bi-furcate ,
- more akimbo ,
- more bifurcate ,
- more crossing ,
- more crotched ,
- more divaricate ,
- more intersecting ,
- more sharp cornered ,
- more sharp-cornered ,
- more sharpcornered ,
- more skewed ,
- more staggered ,
- more v shaped ,
- more v-shaped ,
- more vshaped ,
- more y shaped ,
- more y-shaped ,
- more yshaped ,
- most akimbo ,
- most bifurcate ,
- most crossing ,
- most crotched ,
- most divaricate ,
- most intersecting ,
- most sharp cornered ,
- most sharp-cornered ,
- most sharpcornered ,
- most skewed ,
- most staggered ,
- most v shaped ,
- most v-shaped ,
- most vshaped ,
- most y shaped ,
- most y-shaped ,
- most yshaped ,
- sharp cornered ,
- sharpcornered ,
- v shaped ,
- vshaped ,
- y shaped ,
- yshaped .
- knotted ,
- more askance ,
- more askant ,
- more aslant ,
- more buckled ,
- more catawampus ,
- more crookedly ,
- more obliquely ,
- more topsy turvey ,
- more topsy-turvey ,
- more topsyturvey ,
- more turned ,
- most askance ,
- most askant ,
- most aslant ,
- most buckled ,
- most catawampus ,
- most crookedly ,
- most obliquely ,
- most topsy turvey ,
- most topsy-turvey ,
- most topsyturvey ,
- most turned ,
- off center ,
- offcenter ,
- slanting ,
- to side ,
- topsy turvey ,
- topsyturvey .
- bi furcated ,
- bi-furcated ,
- more angled ,
- more bifid ,
- more bifurcated ,
- more branched ,
- more branching ,
- more dichotomous ,
- more dichotonic ,
- more furcate ,
- more furcated ,
- more pronged ,
- more split ,
- more tined ,
- more tridented ,
- most angled ,
- most bifid ,
- most bifurcated ,
- most branched ,
- most branching ,
- most dichotomous ,
- most dichotonic ,
- most furcate ,
- most furcated ,
- most pronged ,
- most split ,
- most tined ,
- most tridented .
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adv.
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n.
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- axis ,
- chord ,
- curvature ,
- diameter ,
- horizontal ,
- inclined plane ,
- line ,
- outline .
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v.
• bend- DE Form ,
- Incurvating ,
- angled away ,
- angled off ,
- angles away ,
- angles off ,
- angling away ,
- angling off ,
- de forming ,
- de forms ,
- de tour ,
- de toured ,
- de touring ,
- de tours ,
- de-form ,
- de-forming ,
- de-forms ,
- de-tour ,
- de-toured ,
- de-touring ,
- de-tours ,
- in cline ,
- in clines ,
- in-cline ,
- in-clines ,
- incurvates .
- Overpassing ,
- cuts across ,
- cutting across ,
- extended over ,
- extending over ,
- extends over ,
- goes across ,
- going across ,
- moved across ,
- moves across ,
- moving across ,
- over passed ,
- over passes ,
- over passing ,
- over-pass ,
- over-passed ,
- over-passes ,
- over-passing ,
- trans verse ,
- trans versed ,
- trans versing ,
- trans-verse ,
- trans-versed ,
- trans-versing ,
- went across .
- form in to ringlets ,
- formed in to ringlets ,
- formed into ringlets ,
- forming in to ringlets ,
- forming into ringlets ,
- forms in to ringlets ,
- forms into ringlets ,
- in dent ,
- in dented ,
- in denting ,
- in dents ,
- in-dent ,
- in-dented ,
- in-denting ,
- in-dents ,
- ringleting .
- am all over map ,
- am all over the map ,
- am over map ,
- am over the map ,
- are all over map ,
- are all over the map ,
- are over map ,
- are over the map ,
- art all over map ,
- art all over the map ,
- art over map ,
- art over the map ,
- be all over map ,
- be over map ,
- be over the map ,
- being all over map ,
- being all over the map ,
- being over map ,
- being over the map ,
- de part ,
- de parted ,
- de parting ,
- de parts ,
- de-part ,
- de-parted ,
- de-parting ,
- de-parts ,
- ex curse ,
- ex cursed ,
- ex curses ,
- ex cursing ,
- ex tend ,
- ex tended ,
- ex tending ,
- ex tends ,
- ex-curse ,
- ex-cursed ,
- ex-curses ,
- ex-cursing ,
- ex-tend ,
- ex-tended ,
- ex-tending ,
- ex-tends ,
- excursed ,
- excursing ,
- gat sidetracked ,
- gets sidetracked ,
- getting sidetracked ,
- got sidetracked ,
- gotten sidetracked ,
- is all over map ,
- is all over the map ,
- is over map ,
- is over the map ,
- sprangles ,
- was all over map ,
- was all over the map ,
- was over map ,
- was over the map ,
- wast all over map ,
- wast all over the map ,
- wast over map ,
- wast over the map ,
- were all over map ,
- were all over the map ,
- were over map ,
- were over the map ,
- wert all over map ,
- wert all over the map ,
- wert over map ,
- wert over the map .
- over lap ,
- over lapped ,
- over lapping ,
- over laps ,
- over-lap ,
- over-lapped ,
- over-lapping ,
- over-laps ,
- titubated ,
- titubates ,
- titubating ,
- top pled ,
- whiffles .
- Re-turn ,
- about face ,
- about faced ,
- about facing ,
- changed position ,
- changes position ,
- changing position ,
- de tract ,
- de tracts ,
- de-tract ,
- de-tracts ,
- faced about ,
- faces about ,
- facing about ,
- in verse ,
- in versed ,
- in versing ,
- in-verse ,
- in-versed ,
- in-versing ,
- inversing ,
- re channel ,
- re channeled ,
- re channeling ,
- re channelled ,
- re channelling ,
- re channels ,
- re coil ,
- re coiled ,
- re coiling ,
- re coils ,
- re direct ,
- re directed ,
- re directing ,
- re directs ,
- re lapse ,
- re lapsed ,
- re lapses ,
- re lapsing ,
- re trace ,
- re traced ,
- re traces ,
- re tracing ,
- re turn ,
- re turning ,
- re turns ,
- re-channel ,
- re-channeled ,
- re-channeling ,
- re-channelled ,
- re-channelling ,
- re-channels ,
- re-coil ,
- re-coiled ,
- re-coiling ,
- re-coils ,
- re-direct ,
- re-directed ,
- re-directing ,
- re-directs ,
- re-lapse ,
- re-lapsed ,
- re-lapses ,
- re-lapsing ,
- re-trace ,
- re-traced ,
- re-traces ,
- re-tracing ,
- re-turned ,
- re-turning ,
- re-turns ,
- rechannelled ,
- shied away ,
- shies away ,
- shying away ,
- trans form ,
- trans formed ,
- trans forming ,
- trans forms ,
- trans-form ,
- trans-formed ,
- trans-forming ,
- trans-forms ,
- up sets ,
- up setting ,
- up-set ,
- up-sets ,
- up-setting ,
- volte faced ,
- volte facing ,
- volte-faced ,
- volte-facing ,
- volteface ,
- voltefaced ,
- voltefaces ,
- voltefacing .
- inter twine ,
- inter twines ,
- inter twining ,
- inter-twine ,
- inter-twines ,
- inter-twining ,
- turns around ,
- wrapped around ,
- wrapping around ,
- wraps around ,
- wrapt around .
- complecting ,
- complects ,
- criss cross ,
- criss crossed ,
- criss crosses ,
- criss crossing ,
- criss-crossed ,
- criss-crosses ,
- criss-crossing ,
- in corporate ,
- in corporates ,
- in-corporate ,
- in-corporates ,
- inter fold ,
- inter folded ,
- inter folding ,
- inter folds ,
- inter lace ,
- inter laced ,
- inter laces ,
- inter lacing ,
- inter link ,
- inter linked ,
- inter linking ,
- inter links ,
- inter mingle ,
- inter mingling ,
- inter-fold ,
- inter-folded ,
- inter-folding ,
- inter-folds ,
- inter-lace ,
- inter-laced ,
- inter-laces ,
- inter-lacing ,
- inter-link ,
- inter-linked ,
- inter-linking ,
- inter-links ,
- inter-mingle ,
- inter-mingled ,
- inter-mingles ,
- inter-mingling ,
- interfolding ,
- interfolds ,
- intro duce ,
- intro duces ,
- intro-duce ,
- intro-duces ,
- move and out ,
- move in out ,
- moved and out ,
- moved in and out ,
- moved in out ,
- moves and out ,
- moves in and out ,
- moves in out ,
- moves out ,
- moving and out ,
- moving in and out ,
- moving in out ,
- moving out ,
- pieces together ,
- twist turn ,
- twisted and turn ,
- twisted turn ,
- twisting and turn ,
- twisting turn ,
- twists and turn ,
- twists turn ,
- whipped through ,
- whipping through ,
- whips through ,
- whipt through .
Other synonyms:
- roundabout ,
- traverse .
Other relevant words:
- CUED ,
- Complected ,
- Criss-cross ,
- Crocheted ,
- Excurse ,
- FORDS ,
- Forded ,
- Interfolded ,
- Overpassed ,
- Promenaded ,
- Promenading ,
- Refracted ,
- Sauntered ,
- Sheered ,
- Sheering ,
- Shunted ,
- Shunting ,
- Snaked ,
- Spanned ,
- Spraining ,
- Stammered ,
- Strolled ,
- Titubate ,
- Voyaged ,
- Voyaging ,
- Whiffle ,
- Whiffled ,
- Whiffling ,
- be all over the map ,
- change position ,
- complect ,
- crisscrossed ,
- crisscrosses ,
- crisscrossing ,
- crochet ,
- crocheting ,
- crochets ,
- crook ,
- cross ,
- cuing ,
- curl ,
- cut across ,
- dithered ,
- dithering ,
- excurses ,
- extend over ,
- face about ,
- ford ,
- fording ,
- get sidetracked ,
- go across ,
- go back ,
- inter-twined ,
- interfold ,
- interlink ,
- interlinked ,
- interlinking ,
- interlinks ,
- intertwines ,
- inversed ,
- inverses ,
- knock about ,
- knock around ,
- matted ,
- move across ,
- move in and out ,
- move out ,
- moved out ,
- over pass ,
- overlapping ,
- overpast ,
- piece together ,
- pieced together ,
- piecing together ,
- ramble ,
- rechannel ,
- rechanneled ,
- rechanneling ,
- rechannelling ,
- rechannels ,
- redirect ,
- redirected ,
- redirecting ,
- redirects ,
- reticulate ,
- reticulated ,
- reticulates ,
- reticulating ,
- rick ,
- ricked ,
- ricking ,
- ricks ,
- sail ,
- sheers ,
- shunt ,
- shunts ,
- shy away ,
- sprangle ,
- sprangled ,
- sprangling ,
- spread eagle ,
- spread-eagle ,
- spreadeagle ,
- stagger ,
- staggering ,
- totter ,
- turn ,
- turn around ,
- turned around ,
- turning around ,
- twist and turn ,
- up set ,
- volte-face ,
- volte-faces ,
- voyage ,
- walk unsteadily ,
- walking unsteadily ,
- walks unsteadily ,
- weave ,
- whip through ,
- wind ,
- wrap around ,
- wriggle ,
- yaw .
- Cambered ,
- Cambering ,
- Incurvated ,
- Zigzagged ,
- Zigzagging ,
- angle away ,
- angle off ,
- camber ,
- cambers ,
- detoured ,
- detouring ,
- incurvate ,
- refract ,
- rounding ,
- spiraled ,
- spiralled ,
- spiralling ,
- warp .
- CRISPS ,
- Crisped ,
- Crisping ,
- Frizzed ,
- Frizzes ,
- Frizzing ,
- Kinked ,
- Kinking ,
- Lapped ,
- Scalloping ,
- Wreathen ,
- Wreathing ,
- corkscrew ,
- corkscrewed ,
- corkscrewing ,
- corkscrews ,
- form into ringlets ,
- frizz ,
- ringlet ,
- ringleted ,
- scallop ,
- scalloped ,
- scallops ,
- wreathe ,
- wreathed ,
- wreathes .
- Aduncous ,
- Against ,
- Ambages ,
- Anfractuosities ,
- Anthemion ,
- Bendy ,
- Chevronwise ,
- Circuition ,
- Circumambient ,
- Circumbendibus ,
- Crankle ,
- Crotched ,
- Dentiform ,
- Deviating ,
- Deviatory ,
- Discursion ,
- Dovetailed ,
- During ,
- Errantry ,
- Falcated ,
- From ,
- Furcated ,
- Furcular ,
- Geniculated ,
- Him ,
- Into ,
- Involuted ,
- It ,
- Jink ,
- Kimbo ,
- Listel ,
- Meandrous ,
- Nicked ,
- Of ,
- Onto ,
- Pererration ,
- Pinked ,
- Powdering ,
- Refraining ,
- Sidetracking ,
- Snaking ,
- Staggered ,
- Strapwork ,
- Them ,
- Toward ,
- Unto ,
- Upon ,
- Waggling ,
- Wigwagging ,
- Zigzaggery ,
- Zigzaggy ,
- aberrancy ,
- aberrant ,
- aberration ,
- aberrative ,
- acanthus ,
- akimbo ,
- alter ,
- alternate ,
- ambagious ,
- ambiguous ,
- amble ,
- and fro ,
- anfractuous ,
- angle ,
- angular ,
- angular shape ,
- angularity ,
- ankle ,
- apex ,
- aquiline ,
- arabesque ,
- arc ,
- arch ,
- astragal ,
- avoidance ,
- avoiding reaction ,
- awry ,
- back and fill ,
- backhanded ,
- backwards and forwards ,
- battledore and shuttlecock ,
- bead ,
- beading ,
- beat ,
- become ,
- bend ,
- bent ,
- bias ,
- bifurcate ,
- bifurcated ,
- bifurcation ,
- bight ,
- billow ,
- biramous ,
- bivalent ,
- bow ,
- branch ,
- branching ,
- branching off ,
- brandish ,
- cant ,
- cartouche ,
- carve ,
- chevron ,
- circuit ,
- circuitousness ,
- circumlocutory ,
- circumvention ,
- coil ,
- coin ,
- come about ,
- come and go ,
- coming and going ,
- convert ,
- convolutions ,
- corner ,
- cornered ,
- crab-like ,
- crane ,
- crank ,
- crank up ,
- crankiness ,
- crenate ,
- crenellate ,
- crenellated ,
- crenulate ,
- crinkled ,
- crooked ,
- crookedness ,
- crotch ,
- crotchet ,
- crutch ,
- curled ,
- curling ,
- curve ,
- curved ,
- curvilinear ,
- curving ,
- curvy ,
- declination ,
- defense mechanism ,
- deflect ,
- deflection ,
- dentate ,
- denticulate ,
- depart from ,
- departing ,
- departure ,
- desultory ,
- detail ,
- detour ,
- deviance ,
- deviancy ,
- deviant ,
- deviate ,
- deviation ,
- deviative ,
- deviousness ,
- diaper ,
- diffract ,
- diffuse ,
- digression ,
- digressive ,
- discursive ,
- disperse ,
- distort ,
- divagation ,
- divarication ,
- diverge ,
- divergence ,
- diversion ,
- divert ,
- dodge ,
- dog-leg ,
- dogleg ,
- double ,
- drift ,
- drifting ,
- dual ,
- duck ,
- ebb and flow ,
- elbow ,
- ell ,
- elusion ,
- elusiveness ,
- entwine ,
- equivocal ,
- equivocation ,
- errant ,
- erratic ,
- escape ,
- evasion ,
- evasive ,
- evasive action ,
- evasiveness ,
- excursion ,
- excursive ,
- excursus ,
- falciform ,
- fillet ,
- flap ,
- flapping ,
- fleur-de-lis ,
- flexuous ,
- flip-flop ,
- flourish ,
- flourishing ,
- fluctuate ,
- fluctuation ,
- fluke ,
- flutter ,
- forbearance ,
- forestalling ,
- forestallment ,
- fork ,
- fret ,
- furcal ,
- furcate ,
- furcation ,
- geniculate ,
- get ,
- getting around ,
- go about ,
- graining ,
- groin ,
- grow ,
- gyrate ,
- hairpin ,
- hairpin bend ,
- hairpin curve ,
- hitch and hike ,
- hook ,
- hooked ,
- in and out ,
- indent ,
- indirect ,
- indirection ,
- inflection ,
- interweave ,
- irregular ,
- irregularity ,
- jagged ,
- jiggle ,
- knee ,
- knit ,
- knuckle ,
- librate ,
- libration ,
- loop ,
- looping ,
- loose ,
- maze-like ,
- mazy ,
- meander ,
- molding ,
- mosey ,
- neutrality ,
- nonintervention ,
- noninvolvement ,
- nook ,
- not straight ,
- notched ,
- obliquity ,
- on ,
- oscillate ,
- oscillation ,
- out-of-the-way ,
- overturn ,
- paneling ,
- pargeting ,
- pattern ,
- per ,
- periphrastic ,
- pilaster ,
- planetary ,
- point ,
- pointed ,
- prevention ,
- projection ,
- pronged ,
- pull ,
- quiver ,
- quoin ,
- ragged ,
- rambling ,
- rearrange ,
- reciprocate ,
- revolve ,
- richness ,
- ridged ,
- ripple ,
- rotate ,
- rough ,
- roundabout way ,
- rove ,
- roving ,
- runaround ,
- saw-toothed ,
- sawlike ,
- sawtooth ,
- sawtoothed ,
- scatter ,
- scythe ,
- seesaw ,
- serrate ,
- serrated ,
- serratiform ,
- serriform ,
- serrulate ,
- shake ,
- sharp ,
- sharp-cornered ,
- sheer ,
- shift ,
- shifting ,
- shunning ,
- shuttle ,
- shuttlecock ,
- shy ,
- sickle ,
- sidestep ,
- sinuosity ,
- sinuous ,
- skew ,
- slalom ,
- slant ,
- slew ,
- slip ,
- sloping ,
- snake ,
- snaky ,
- space ,
- spiral ,
- squiggle ,
- stray ,
- straying ,
- stroke ,
- stroll ,
- sway ,
- swaying ,
- sweep ,
- swerve ,
- swerving ,
- swing ,
- swinging ,
- switchback ,
- teeter ,
- texture ,
- to and fro ,
- toing and froing ,
- tooling ,
- toothed ,
- tortuosities ,
- tracery ,
- transform ,
- transverse ,
- treble ,
- twine ,
- twist ,
- twisted ,
- twofold ,
- undirected ,
- undulate ,
- uneven ,
- vacillate ,
- vagrant ,
- variation ,
- vary ,
- veer ,
- veering ,
- vertex ,
- vibrate ,
- vibration ,
- wag ,
- waggle ,
- wander ,
- wandering ,
- wave ,
- waver ,
- wavering ,
- waving ,
- wax and wane ,
- wiggle ,
- wigwag ,
- wobble ,
- wobbling ,
- worm ,
- zag ,
- zig ,
- zig-zag ,
- zigzags .
- Slued ,
- Sluing ,
- slue ,
- slues ,
- unsteadied .
- Tridented ,
- askant ,
- aslant ,
- bifid ,
- branched ,
- catawampus ,
- crookedly ,
- dichotomous ,
- dichotonic ,
- divaricate ,
- labyrinthine ,
- long way home ,
- longwinded ,
- one side ,
- sidelong ,
- spiraling ,
- tined ,
- to one side ,
- topsy-turvey ,
- tortuous ,
- vermiculate ,
- winding ,
- wriggly ,
- yaw ways .
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How to use "Zigzag" in context?
The word "zigzag" has a variety of definitions and usages. In its most general form, it is a gradual pattern of alternating steps or strokes in a straight line. It can also refer to a more specific pattern, consisting of three or more zigzag lines running in opposite directions.
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