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41meander — {{11}}meander (n.) 1570s, confusion, intricacies, from L. meander a winding course, from Gk. Maiandros, name of a river in Caria noted for its winding course (the Greeks used the name figuratively for winding patterns). In reference to river… …
42meandering — a. Winding, serpentine, tortuous, anfractuous, flexuous, meandrian, meandrous …
43meandering — adj 1. circuitous, indirect, devious; anfractuous, winding, turning, sinuous, serpentine, snaky, tortuous, vermicular, vermiculate; roundabout, ambagious, flexuous, curvy, curved, wavy, undulating; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute, coiled; …
44serpentine — [adj] winding; sly anfractuous, artful, cagey, circuitous, clever, coiling, convoluted, crafty, cunning, curved, curvy, foxy, indirect, mazy, meandering, meandrous, shrewd, sinuous, slick, slinky, snakelike, snaky*, subtle, supple, twisting,… …
45sinuous — [adj] winding, twisting anfractuous, circuitous, coiling, convoluted, crooked, curved, curvy, deviative, devious, flexuous, indirect, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, snaky*, supple, tortuous, twisting and turning*, undulating, vagrant; concept …
46snaky — [adj1] winding anfractuous, convoluted, entwined, flexuous, indirect, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, writhing, zigzag; concept 581 Ant. straight, unwinding snaky [adj2] devious, sly crafty, insidious,… …
47tortuous — [adj1] very twisted anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting, vermiculate, winding, zigzag; concept 581… …
48meander — [mē an′dər] n. [L maeander < Gr maiandros < Maiandros, the MAEANDER (noted for its winding course)] 1. [pl.] windings or convolutions, as of a stream 2. an ornamental pattern of winding or crisscrossing lines 3. an aimless wandering;… …
49me|an|drous — «mee AN druhs», adjective. meandering; winding: »Figurative. an introspective, meandrous excursion through his own mind (New Yorker) …
