| Main Entry: | maunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | digress |
Synonyms: |
deviate, drift, ramble, roam, stray, wander |
| Notes: | maunder means to talk incoherently or to speak in a rambling manner or to wander aimlessly or confusedly; meander means to wind or turn in a course or to move in a leisurely way |
| Main Entry: | maunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander |
Synonyms: |
babble, blather, drift, drivel, mumble, mutter, ramble, stray |
| Main Entry: | gad |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | roam about |
Synonyms: |
cruise, gallivant, hit the road, hit the trail, jaunt, knock about, knock around, maunder, mooch, ramble, range, rove, run around, stray, traipse, wander |
| Main Entry: | mumble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | say low and inarticulately |
Synonyms: |
grumble, maunder, murmur, mutter, ramble, rumble, say to oneself, speak, stammer, stutter, swallow, talk, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whimper, whine, whisper |
Antonyms: |
speak clearly |
| Main Entry: | ramble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk aimlessly, endlessly |
Synonyms: |
amplify, babble, be diffuse, beat around bush, blather, chatter, depart, descant, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, drivel, dwell on, enlarge, excurse, expatiate, get off the subject, go astray, go off on tangent, go on and on, gossip, harp on, lose the thread, maunder, meander, prose, protract, rant and rave, rattle on, stray, talk nonsense, talk off top of head, talk randomly, wander |
Antonyms: |
be direct |
| Main Entry: | straggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander, stray |
Synonyms: |
be late, dawdle, drift, lag, loiter, maunder, meander, poke, poke around, ramble, range, roam, rove, scramble, spread, straddle, string out, tail, trail |
Antonyms: |
hurry, run, rush |
| Main Entry: | wander |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move about aimlessly |
Synonyms: |
aberrate, amble, circumambulate, circumlocute, circumnutate, cruise, deviate, divagate, diverge, drift, float, follow one's nose, gad, gallivant*, globe-trot, hike, hopscotch, jaunt, maunder, meander, peregrinate, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, take to the road, trail, traipse, tramp, trek, vagabond, walk the tracks |
Antonyms: |
stay |
