meandering
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6.1
- noun
- /miˈændərɪŋ/
:
divagación
- No social pleasantries, no meandering around to get to the point.
- meandering rivers
- meandering course
- meandering around
And then George goes on to say transcripts of her verbal meanderings cannot convey their eerie strangeness.
- And then George goes on to say transcripts of her verbal meanderings cannot convey their eerie strangeness.
Examples
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Some people thought "Tree of Life" bloviated, but the meandering is what allowed you to relax.
Blog text (5) -
Some people thought "Tree of Life" bloviated, but the meandering is what allowed you to relax and get into it.
Blog text (5) -
How long it takes probably comes down to how much meandering around you want to do.
Blog text (11) -
But instead I gave you a meandering tour and aimlessly talked about my dead dog.
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You got to go through the slow, plotting, annoying, meandering process called career and life.
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Tristram Shandy's meandering account of his birth is a case in point.
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For our meandering drives in the mountains, into Corinth or around Lake Luzerne?
Fiction book (1997) -
However, there's still too much meandering and lack of focus to make this a show worth recommending wholeheartedly.
Blog text (6) -
Alas, it wasn't to be due to some of life's aimless meandering.
Blog text (15) -
The novel's charm lies in its meanderings, as the characters explore various ideas without a fixed agenda.
Synonyms
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5.0
Moving from place to place without a clear purpose
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9.9
Being lost in pleasant thoughts and not noticing things around you
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7.0
A lack of clear purpose or direction
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5.2
A slow, aimless walk that follows a curving path
Lost in daydreams and not paying attention
How Aimless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The noun meandering comes from the verb meander, which itself comes from the river name Meander and means to move or flow without a straight route. So a meandering is like a 'wandering' walk or a string of thoughts that 'drift' with no clear direction.