meandering

English

Verb

meandering

1. present participle and gerund of meander

Adjective

meandering (comparative more meandering, superlative most meandering)

1. Winding or rambling.
   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:

     After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.

Derived terms

• meanderingly

Translations

winding, rambling

• Bulgarian: извит (bg) (izvit), кривуличещ (krivuličešt)
• Finnish: polveileva (fi), mutkitteleva; meanderoiva (of a river)
• French: méandreux (fr)
• German: mäandernd (de), mäanderartig (de), abschweifend (de), mäandrisch (de)
• Greek: μαιανδρικός (el) m (maiandrikós)
• Hungarian: kanyargós (hu)
• Polish: meandrowanie
• Scottish Gaelic: lùbach
• Yoruba: kọ́lọkọ̀lọ

Noun

meandering (plural meanderings)

1. An instance or period of roaming.

Translations

instance or period of roaming

• Finnish: kiemurtelu (fi), polveilu, mutkittelu; meanderointi (of a river)

Anagrams

• reamending