meandering

 
Pronunciation: /miˈandərɪŋ/

adjective

  • following a winding course: meandering rivers flow at vastly different rates
  • proceeding in a convoluted or undirected fashion: a brilliant sample of meandering discourse a florid and rather meandering melody

noun

(usually meanderings)
  • an act of following a winding course: ox-bow lagoons left by the river’s meanderings
  • an act of wandering in a leisurely or aimless manner: in the course of his meanderings through the city
  • [mass noun] convoluted or undirected thought or language: he has a penchant for obscure verbal meanderings