zigzag

zigzag
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. back-and-forth, tacking, serrated, jagged; crooked, tortuous. See deviation, angularity.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. oblique, inclined, sloping, awry, crooked, thrawn, sinuous, twisted, askew, transverse, diagonal, curved, loxic, bent, crinkled, serrated, falcated, furcal, furcated, jagged, straggling, meandering, devious, erratic, rambling, oscilLating, fluctuating, waggling, undulatory, vibratory, indirect, spiral, tortuous; see also angular 1 , irregular 4 .
Ant. straight*, parallel, undeviating.
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To move in a zigzag manner, as on a ski slope: traverse. See MOVE, RISE.

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