MEANDERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meandering mean? 

• MEANDERING (adjective)
  The adjective MEANDERING has 1 sense:

1. of a path e.g.

  Familiarity information: MEANDERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEANDERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a path e.g.

Synonyms:

meandering; rambling; wandering; winding

Context example:

a winding country road

Similar:

indirect (not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination)

 Context examples 

Other fronts in similar wave trains tilt significantly with respect to the orientation of the wave train, and still other wave trains follow slanted or meandering paths.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)

She always returned, with greater emphasis and with an instinctive knowledge of the strength of her objection, “Let us have no meandering.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I might have a misgiving that I am meandering in stopping to say this, but that it brings me to remark that I build these conclusions, in part upon my own experience of myself; and if it should appear from anything I may set down in this narrative that I was a child of close observation, or that as a man I have a strong memory of my childhood, I undoubtedly lay claim to both of these characteristics.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have understood that it was, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the water in her life, except upon a bridge; and that over her tea (to which she was extremely partial) she, to the last, expressed her indignation at the impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go meandering about the world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)