'Straggling' definitions:
Definition of 'straggling'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Straggling'
From: GCIDE
- Straggle \Strag"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Straggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Straggling.] [Freq. of OE. straken to roam, to stroke. See Stroke, v. t.]
- 1. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. [1913 Webster]
- The wolf spied out a straggling kid. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth. [1913 Webster]
- Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. "Straggling pistol shots." --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Straggling'
From: GCIDE
- Straggling \Strag"gling\, a. & n. from Straggle, v. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'straggling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- broadcast,
- capricious,
- casual,
- circumforaneous,
- desultory,
- diffuse,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- discursive,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- dispread,
- disproportionate,
- disseminated,
- dissipated,
- distributed,
- divagatory,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drifting,
- elongated,
- errant,
- erratic,
- extended,
- fitful,
- flitting,
- floating,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- gratuitous,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- haphazard,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indiscriminate,
- irregular,
- landloping,
- lengthened,
- meandering,
- meaningless,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- misshapen,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- orderless,
- planless,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- promiscuous,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- rambling,
- random,
- ranging,
- roaming,
- roving,
- scattered,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- sparse,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- spread,
- spun out,
- straggly,
- strained,
- straying,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- strewn,
- strolling,
- strown,
- strung out,
- systemless,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vague,
- wandering,
- widespread