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meandering

[mee-an-der-ing]

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adjective

taking a winding or indirect course.
The city of Budapest is divided into two parts by the meandering Danube River, spanned by several stunning bridges.
wandering aimlessly; proceeding seemingly without direction; rambling.
I'm unsure how I will condense a meandering narrative of my experiences into a thirty-second elevator pitch.
Things proceed in a meandering way between them, until suddenly their relationship comes to a devastatingly emotional climax.

noun

the act of wandering or proceeding aimlessly or by a winding or indirect course.
I digress—but I blame it on the mental meandering of age.
After a coffee and some meandering among the displays on the hotel mezzanine, I left the convention.

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Other Word Forms

meanderingly adverb
unmeandering adjective
unmeanderingly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of meandering¹

First recorded in 1610–20; meander ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; meander ( def. ) + -ing ¹ ( def. ) for the noun sense

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Seen from above, meandering rivers resemble vascular systems or neural networks.

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“They were set up, punchline, no meandering stories; all meat, no filler,” Oswalt says in his segment.

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But the central relationship between Baldwin’s veteran killer and McDermott’s scarred innocent never quite gels into meaningful cross-generational intimacy, and the chase around them feels meandering.

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But as Dame Andrea's meandering political career shows, she has form for bouncing back from crushing disappointments with attention-grabbing election wins.

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The meandering jet stream across the UK has also been responsible for sending low pressure systems towards the Canaries and Iberia which by contrast have seen some stormy weather.

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meander meandering stream

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