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meandersome

meandersome adjective: characterised or marked by meandering.

Adjective

meandersome (comparative more meandersome, superlative most meandersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by meandering.
    • […] and the tortoises permitted to take their meandersome way, did bobble in the dark in a glimmering sarabande, […]1999, Patricia Eakins, The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste, page 67
    • To my agent, Julia Kardon, who believed in this novel from its strange, meandersome beginnings.2022, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Before All the World

Forms of meandersome

comparativemore meandersome
superlativemost meandersome

Origin of meandersome

From meander + -some.

Questions about meandersome

What does meandersome mean?
Meandersome means characterised or marked by meandering.
What part of speech is meandersome?
Meandersome is an adjective.

Words near meandersome in the dictionary

  1. meandereth
  2. meandering
  3. meanderingly
  4. meanderings
  5. meanders
  6. meandersome
  7. meanderthal
  8. meanderthals
  9. meandery
  10. meandom
  11. meandrian

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