'Zigzag' definitions:
Definition of 'zigzag'
(from WordNet)
adverb
In a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"
adjective
Having short sharp turns or angles [syn: zigzag, zig- zag]
noun
verb
Travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside" [syn: zigzag, crank]
Definition of 'Zigzag'
From: GCIDE
- Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, n. [F. zigzag, G. zickzack, from zacke, zacken, a dentil, tooth. Cf. Tack a small nail.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Something that has short turns or angles. [1913 Webster]
- The fanatics going straight forward and openly, the politicians by the surer mode of zigzag. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Fort.) See Boyau. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Zigzag'
From: GCIDE
- Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, a. Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Zigzag'
From: GCIDE
- Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Zigzagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Zigzagging.] To form with short turns. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Zigzag'
From: GCIDE
- Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, v. i. To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape. --R. Browning. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'zigzag'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberrant,
- aberration,
- aberrative,
- akimbo,
- alternate,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angular,
- apex,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- back and fill,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- bend,
- bendy,
- bent,
- bias,
- bifurcate,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- branch,
- branching off,
- cant,
- chevron,
- chevronwise,
- chevrony,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumvention,
- coin,
- come and go,
- corner,
- cornered,
- crank,
- crankiness,
- crankle,
- crankled,
- crook,
- crooked,
- crookedness,
- crotched,
- crotchet,
- curve,
- curvy,
- declination,
- defense mechanism,
- deflect,
- deflection,
- departing,
- departure,
- desultory,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- deviousness,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- digression,
- digressive,
- discursion,
- discursive,
- disperse,
- distort,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dodge,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- duck,
- ebb and flow,
- elbow,
- ell,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocation,
- errant,
- errantry,
- erratic,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- excursion,
- excursive,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- fork,
- forked,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- furcation,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- getting around,
- hairpin,
- hitch and hike,
- hook,
- hooked,
- indirect,
- indirection,
- inflection,
- jagged,
- jink,
- knee,
- knee-shaped,
- L,
- labyrinthine,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nook,
- obliquity,
- out-of-the-way,
- pass and repass,
- pererration,
- planetary,
- point,
- pointed,
- prevention,
- pull,
- quoin,
- rambling,
- reciprocate,
- refract,
- refraining,
- ride and tie,
- roving,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- scatter,
- seesaw,
- serpentine,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- skew,
- slant,
- slip,
- snaky,
- stagger,
- staggered,
- stray,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swing,
- swinging,
- switchback,
- tack,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- the runaround,
- to-and-fro,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- V-shaped,
- vagrant,
- variation,
- veer,
- veering,
- vertex,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wax and wane,
- wibble-wabble,
- wigwag,
- winding,
- Y-shaped,
- yaw,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzaggery,
- zigzaggy,
- zigzagways