Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to maunder
Participle: maundered
Gerund: maundering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | maunder |
| you | maunder |
| he;she;it | maunders |
| we | maunder |
| you | maunder |
| they | maunder |
Perfect
| I | have maundered |
| you | have maundered |
| he;she;it | has maundered |
| we | have maundered |
| you | have maundered |
| they | have maundered |
Past
| I | maundered |
| you | maundered |
| he;she;it | maundered |
| we | maundered |
| you | maundered |
| they | maundered |
Pluperfect
| I | had maundered |
| you | had maundered |
| he;she;it | had maundered |
| we | had maundered |
| you | had maundered |
| they | had maundered |
Future
| I | will maunder |
| you | will maunder |
| he;she;it | will maunder |
| we | will maunder |
| you | will maunder |
| they | will maunder |
Future Perfect
| I | will have maundered |
| you | will have maundered |
| he;she;it | will have maundered |
| we | will have maundered |
| you | will have maundered |
| they | will have maundered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | maunder |
| you | maunder |
| he;she;it | maunder |
| we | maunder |
| you | maunder |
| they | maunder |
Perfect
| I | have maundered |
| you | have maundered |
| he;she;it | have maundered |
| we | have maundered |
| you | have maundered |
| they | have maundered |
Imperfect
| I | maundered |
| you | maundered |
| he;she;it | maundered |
| we | maundered |
| you | maundered |
| they | maundered |
Pluperfect
| I | had maundered |
| you | had maundered |
| he;she;it | had maundered |
| we | had maundered |
| you | had maundered |
| they | had maundered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would maunder |
| you | would maunder |
| he;she;it | would maunder |
| we | would maunder |
| you | would maunder |
| they | would maunder |
Perfect
| I | would have maundered |
| you | would have maundered |
| he;she;it | would have maundered |
| we | would have maundered |
| you | would have maundered |
| they | would have maundered |
Imperative
| you | maunder |
| we | Let's maunder |
| you | maunder |
Verbs conjugated like 'maunder'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'maunder'
daunder,
jaunder,
launder,
mander,
blunder,
chunder,
dander,
dauner,
founder,
gander,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- speak in a disorganized manner
- babble, prattle, ramble
- walk aimlessly
- ramble, wander
- to talk too much; to talk idly
- babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, clepe, drivel, gabble, gibber, go on, jabber, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter
- wander
- ramble, drift, stray, deviate, meander, range
- mutter
- mumble, drivel, babble, murmur, prattle
Antonyms
- wander
- settle, remain, stay, perch
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to wander about aimlessly," c.1746, earlier "to mumble, grumble" (1621), both senses probably from freq. of maund "to beg" (1567), from Fr. mendier "to beg," from L. mendicare (see mendicant).
2. From earlier maund (“to beg”).
Sample Sentences
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He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. [1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:]
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"Not so fast, Lady Cecilia; not yet;" and now Louisa went on with a medical maundering. "As to low spirits, my dear Cecilia, I must say I agree with Sir Sib Pennyfeather, who tells me it is not mere common low spirits […]" [1834, Maria Edgeworth, Helen: v. 3, ch. V:]
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On the following day my friend's exhaustion had become so great that I began to fear his intelligence altogether broken up. But toward evening he briefly rallied, to maunder about many things, confounding in a sinister jumble the memories of the past weeks and those of bygone years. [1871, Henry James, “ch. IV”, in A Passionate Pilgrim:]
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What are you maundering about? He's going out from here a free man and whole—he's not going to die. [1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch. XVII:]
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Whether Edwina [mother of Tennessee Williams] had sufficient self-awareness to recognize her own maundering about (say) "seventeen! – gentleman callers!" is doubtful, but she was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible. [2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times:]
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[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism. [1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 35:]