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meandering
[ mee-an-der-ing ]
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.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ···Բ· adverb
- ܲ····Բ adjective
- un····Բ· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of meandering1
Example Sentences
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.
But as Dame Andrea's meandering political career shows, she has form for bouncing back from crushing disappointments with attention-grabbing election wins.
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.
But the book’s circuitous, meandering structure, including a major digression about one of Siegfried’s sisters, tests the reader’s patience.
On Sunday, the researchers started by launching a drone from the pitching deck of their boat to get a bird’s-eye view of the large, dark shapes meandering lazily through the surf zone.
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