Thesaurus / meandering
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Our route next day through the narrow byways of Dorsetshire was a meandering one.
BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHYOf course, these caused more or less meandering, but in the end they came to a place where Tolly Tip raised a warning finger.
THE BANNER BOY SCOUTS SNOWBOUNDGEORGE A. WARRENMoreover, an auxiliary stream was meandering over the table, making rapid progress towards the rose-coloured silk and white lace.
THREE MARGARETSLAURA E. RICHARDSSome woollens are woven simply like linen; some are wide, some very narrow, sewn together in strips, woven in meandering designs.
NEEDLEWORK AS ARTMARIAN ALFORDThe climate demands such, since the answer can be almost anything, a meandering spreading-of-weight kind of answer.
WHEN WINTER COMES TO MAIN STREETGRANT MARTIN OVERTONThe valley was green and level, and a meandering stream formed many little lakes.
TALES OF LONELY TRAILSZANE GREYGrain was literally meandering toward the East instead of moving by a direct route.
RAILROADS: RATES AND REGULATIONSWILLIAM Z. RIPLEYOne gentleman, meandering in the Square, narrowly evaded dismemberment, and was fortunate in getting off with a slight bruise.
THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEYT. PHELANTo the south-east is the far-famed Eppynt Forest, and down through a luxuriant sylvan dell runs the meandering Irvon.
THE CAMBRIAN SKETCH-BOOKR. RICE DAVIESWe discovered a new rivulet meandering down the mountain side, and a royal bed of ferns, and one of two new specimens of bloom.
HELEN GRANT'S SCHOOLDAYSAMANDA M. DOUGLASWORDS RELATED TO MEANDERING
- aberrant
- abnormal
- anomalous
- arbitrary
- bizarre
- capricious
- changeable
- desultory
- devious
- dicey
- directionless
- dubious
- eccentric
- fitful
- flaky
- fluctuant
- idiosyncratic
- iffy
- incalculable
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- irregular
- meandering
- mercurial
- nomadic
- oddball
- peculiar
- planetary
- rambling
- roving
- shifting
- spasmodic
- strange
- stray
- uncertain
- undirected
- unnatural
- unreliable
- unstable
- unusual
- vagarious
- variable
- volatile
- wayward
- weird
- whimsical
- ambiguous
- ancillary
- circuitous
- circular
- circumlocutory
- collateral
- complicated
- contingent
- crooked
- devious
- discursive
- duplicitous
- erratic
- eventual
- implied
- incidental
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- meandering
- oblique
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- periphrastic
- rambling
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- tortuous
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- wandering
- winding
- zigzag
- aberrant
- amorphous
- asymmetrical
- bent
- broken
- cockeyed
- craggy
- crooked
- devious
- disproportionate
- eccentric
- elliptic
- elliptical
- hilly
- jagged
- lopsided
- lumpy
- meandering
- not uniform
- notched
- off-balance
- off-center
- out of proportion
- pitted
- protuberant
- rough
- scarred
- serrate
- serrated
- unaligned
- unbalanced
- unequal
- unsymmetrical
- variable
- wobbly
- zigzagged
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