meandersome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by meandering.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivemeandersome (comparative more meandersome, superlative most meandersome)

comparative more meandersome · superlative most meandersome

  1. Characterised or marked by meandering.

    To my agent, Julia Kardon, who believed in this novel from its strange, meandersome beginnings.

    2022, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Before All the World
    1 more example

    […] 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

Origin

  1. Englishmeander
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. Englishmeandersome

From meander + -some.

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APA

meandersome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meandersome

MLA

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Chicago

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