coiled
Anything that's coiled is arranged in a tight circle of rings. If you can stomach it, picture a coiled snake and you'll get the idea.
New sailors have to watch out for swinging sails overhead and coiled rope underfoot. Your pet snakes might sleep in a coiled heap, and your little sister's fancy hairdo may consist of many coiled sections of hair pinned to her scalp. The adjective coiled describes something that takes the shape of a coil, a circle, ring, or spiral. The Latin root is colligere, "to gather together."
Definitions of coiled
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curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)“a coiled snake ready to strike”“the rope lay coiled on the deck”
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Synonyms:
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coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled
in the shape of a coil
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convolute, convoluted
rolled longitudinally upon itself
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involute
(of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
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involute, rolled
especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
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wound
put in a coil
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Antonyms:
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straight, uncoiled
no longer coiled
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uncurled
not curled
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coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled
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