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maunderingadjective passing from one topic to anothera long, maundering conversation about what was wrong with the world and how he could fix it desultory, digressional, digressionary, digressive, discursive, excursive, leaping, meandering, rambling, wandering circuitous, deviating, devious, indirect, roundabout coherent, consistent, logicaldirect, focused(also focussed), straightforward, undeviating to move about from place to place aimlesslymaundered all over town on his day off batting, cruising, drifting, floating, gadding (about), gallivanting(also galavanting), kicking around, knocking (about), meandering, mooching, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, traipsing, wandering ambling, sauntering, strollingdawdling, mopinggypsying, hoboing, tramping, vagabondingmilling (about or around)straggling, straying to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a pointask her a question and she'll maunder for half an hour blathering (on), going on, rambling, rattling, running on deviating, digressing, straying, wanderingsidetrackingblabbering, blabbing, blithering, bumbling, burbling, chattering, chatting, driveling(or drivelling), drooling, gabbing, gabbling, gibbering, jabbering, pattering, prating, prattling, waffling running one's mouth chiefly Britishto express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomelya couple of mates maundering over their beer in a dark corner of the pub beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, carping, caterwauling, complaining, crabbing, croaking, fussing, griping, grizzling, grouching, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumping, hollering, inveighing, keening, kicking, kvetching, moaning, murmuring, muttering, nagging, repining, screaming, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whinging(or whingeing, British), whining, yammering, yawping(or yauping), yowling objecting (to), protesting, quarreling (with)(or quarrelling (with))caviling(or cavilling), quibblingfretting, stewing, worryingblubbering, crying, sobbingbemoaning, bewailing, deploring, lamenting kicking up a fuss crowing, delighting, rejoicing accepting, bearing, countenancing, enduring, taking, toleratingapplauding, cheering, commending |