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meandering

meandering

4.8
A path, river, or road that has many bends
  • adjective
  • /miˈændərɪŋ/
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  • We enjoyed a meandering walk along the trail, taking time to admire the flowers and trees.

And these shifts and perspective can lead you down very meandering and twisting and turning pathways of healing.

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Examples

  • The river was meandering gently through the valley, following every curve and bend in the landscape.

  • And I just, I, I was very critical of just the meandering nature of it.

  • I would say that I'll try to tackle that in a somewhat meandering fashion.

  • Now, that meandering turned out to have really good outcomes in some respects.

  • I think a lot of that kind of meandering that you do sometimes when you're in school is really helpful.

  • So please enjoy this description and this meandering exploration with Ryan Holiday from Ego is the Enemy.

  • They are slow, meandering, uncomfortable, messy processes.

  • Especially in older textbooks, Roman art is often treated as little more than a meandering postscript to the brilliant story of Greek art.

  • And these shifts and perspective can lead you down very meandering and twisting and turning pathways of healing.

  • For instance, closer to its source, the Nile carves its way through Hard Rock, meandering and crashing over a series of six major cataracts.

Synonyms

rambling
vsmeandering
2 5.1

Twisting and spreading out in many directions like a path or stream

refers to an indirect path with many turns rather than spreading
winding
vsmeandering
2.7

Not straight and turning many times like a mountain road

emphasizes an indirect, often longer course rather than only shape
wandering
vsmeandering
3.4

Turning and curving instead of going in a straight line

describes a slow, indirect course often with many gentle curves

How Winding

tortuous
7 8.1
twisting
3.7
meandering
4.8
curving
2.5
straight
1.0

Surface Forms

meandering positive

Morphology

meandering = meander (transparent) = meander + ing

The word 'meandering' is transparently derived from 'meander' with the addition of the suffix '-ing' to form an adjective.

Etymology

The word meandering comes from the name of an old river, the Meander, that was famous for its many bends. So a meandering path or river 'bends' and 'curves' a lot instead of going straight.