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circuitous, discursive (digressive), indirect, labyrinthine, moving (in motion), protracted, sinuous, tortuous (bending)
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Meandering — Meander Me*an der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Meandered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Meandering}.] To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. [1913 Webster] Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
meandering — adjective 1) a meandering stream Syn: winding, windy, zigzag, zigzagging, twisting, turning, curving, serpentine, sinuous, twisty Ant: straight 2) meandering reminiscences … Thesaurus of popular words
meandering — adj. Meandering is used with these nouns: ↑river, ↑stream … Collocations dictionary
meandering — adjective of a path e.g. (Freq. 2) meandering streams rambling forest paths the river followed its wandering course a winding country road • Syn: ↑rambling, ↑wandering, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
meandering channel — The term meandering should be restricted to loops with channel length more than 1.5 to 2 times the meander wave length. Meandering stream channels commonly have cross sections with low width to depth ratios, cohesive (fine grained) bank… … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
meandering river — vingiuota upė statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Nedidelė lygumų upė, turinti daug vingių. atitikmenys: angl. meandering river vok. mäandrierender Fluss, m; schlängelnder Fluss, m rus. извилистая река, f … Ekologijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas
meandering — 1. adjective winding or rambling 2. noun An instance or period or roaming … Wiktionary
meandering — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, O shaped, aberrant, aberrative, affluent, aimlessness, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, backhanded, balled up, bent, billowing, billowy, circling, circuition, circuitous, circuitousness,… … Moby Thesaurus
meandering — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. rambling, nomadic, circular; see traveling 2 , wandering 1 … English dictionary for students
meandering — me·an·der || mɪ ændÉ™(r) v. walk about aimlessly; carry on in a leisurely way; wander, roam; ramble … English contemporary dictionary
