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meander, v. 1. wind, zigzag, be circuitous, be roundabout, change direction; curve, bend, turn.
2. circumambulate, stroll, amble, Inf. mosey or mosey along; wander, ramble, rove, roam, drift; deviate, digress, stray, go off the track; peregrinate, tramp, nomadize, Sl. bum around.
-n. 3. Usu.
meanders turnings, windings, curv-ings, tortuosities, zigzags; winding path, anfractuosity, Archaic, ambages; maze, labyrinth; indirect course, circuitous journey, detour.
meandering, 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; twisted, tortile, crooked, bent; mazy, labyrinthine.
2. excursive, circumlocutory, periphrastic, digressive, desultory, deviating, rambling, meandrous; diffuse, prolix, protracted, episodic, rhapsodic.
meaning, n. 1. intent, purport, tenor, tone, vein, drift; implication, connotation, signification, denotation, acceptation; sense, import, spirit, gist, upshot, sum and substance, effect, essence, core, pith, content; message, point.
2. intention, purpose, purport, significance; design, plan, aim, goal, end, object.
meaningful, adj. 1. significant, consequential, momentous, portentous, prognostic; ominous, boding, foreboding; important, of great import, critical, decisive, material; weighty, heavy, pregnant, carrying great weight, of substance, pithy; serious, grave, solemn, sober; crucial, urgent, emergent, exigent, pressing, importunate.
2. expressive, eloquent, emphatic, meaning; suggestive, indicative, allusive.
meaningless, adj. 1. purposeless, hollow, empty, vain, useless; inane, pointless, worthless; senseless, without rhyme or reason, unreasonable, irrational, nonsensical, preposterous; foolish, fatuous, silly, asinine, absurd, farcical, stupid; inexpressive, unintelligible, incomprehensible, undecipherable.
2. insignificant, inconsequential, of no consequence, unimportant, of minor importance, of little or no import, negligible, nugatory, inconsiderable; inapplicable, irrelevant, immaterial, unessential; unporten-tous, unmomentous, of no moment, of no great weight, of no matter or concern, of little or no account; Inf. no great shakes, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth thinking or worrying about, not worth a rap or a straw; trivial, twaddling, trifling, frivolous, paltry, petty, niggling; small, minor, puny, dinky, piddling, Inf. picayune, insubstantial, unsubstantial; trite, Sl. mickey-mouse.
meaningly, adv. 1. significantly, importantly, critically, consequentially, momentously, portentously, prognostically; ominously, forebodingly, bodingly, threateningly, minatorily, minaciously; heavily, weightily, substantially, pithily; seriously, gravely, solemnly, soberly.
2. expressively, eloquently, emphatically; suggestively, indicatively, meaningfully; knowingly, tellingly, warningly, admonishingly, monitorially.
meanly, adv. 1. poorly, lowly, humbly, modestly; commonly, ordinarily, averagely, typically.
2. basely, ignobly, dishonorably, shamefully, disgracefully; contemptibly, despicably, vilely, abjectly; shabbily, ungenerously, unfairly, badly, miserably.
3. stingily, niggardly, parsimoniously, skinflinty, penuriously, tightly, cheaply, grudgingly, stintingly.
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