Undulating
['ʌndjə,letɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Undulate
(a.) Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground.
Checker: Mortimer
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Waving, wavy, undulatory.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- On a rainy day, even in a gently undulating country, we see the effects of subaerial degradation in the muddy rills which flow down every slope. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Then the unthinkable high vibration slackened and became more undulating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sometimes the undulating movement was noticeable, but that was all. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Moira